Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay | |
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| Member of Parliament for Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Brigitte Sansoucy |
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| Born | May 11, 1988 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Bloc Québécois |
| Residence | Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec |
| Profession | Essayist |
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay MP (born May 11, 1988) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons in the 2019 federal election.[1] Savard-Tremblay represents the electoral district of Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot as a member of the Bloc Québécois.
Biography
[edit]Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay grew up in Quebec City before settling in Montreal to follow his college studies in economic and social sciences at Collège Stanislas. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the Université de Montréal and a master's degree in sociology from the Université du Québec in Montreal. In 2018 he obtained a doctorate in socio-economics of development from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, under the supervision of Jacques Sapir and Florence Weber.
Savard-Tremblay's involvement in politics led him to chair the Forum jeunesse du Bloc Québécois from 2010 to 2012, notably during the 2011 federal election.
He was active as a columnist in the media for several years, contributing to a blog at the Journal de Montréal.
Savard-Tremblay first defended conservative positions. This has gradually moved away to adopt a similar posture of left nationalism and economic nationalism and hostile to neoliberalism. He openly admires the British economist John Maynard Keynes, whom he describes as "the greatest economist of the 20th century" and "the great thinker of society".[2]
In April 2019, Savard-Tremblay launched his campaign for the nomination of the Bloc Québécois in the riding of Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot. He was elected as Member of Parliament in the federal elections of October 2019.
Since 2021 he has served as the critic of international trade, aerospace and cars in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet.[3]
Electoral record
[edit]| 2019 Canadian federal election: Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay | 23,143 | 41.4 | +17.1 | $26,447.17 | |||
| Liberal | René Vincelette | 11,903 | 21.3 | -6.3 | $49,472.90 | |||
| New Democratic | Brigitte Sansoucy | 10,297 | 18.4 | -10.3 | $48,330.94 | |||
| Conservative | Bernard Barré | 8,062 | 14.4 | -2.3 | $44,085.44 | |||
| Green | Sabrina Huet-Côté | 2,031 | 3.6 | +1.3 | none listed | |||
| People's | Jean-François Bélanger | 478 | 0.9 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 55,914 | 97.57 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,391 | 2.43 | +0.25 | |||||
| Turnout | 57,305 | 70.1 | +1.3 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 81,792 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic | Swing | +11.7 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[4][5] | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Élections fédérales: le bloquiste Simon-Pierre Savard Tremblay élu". CFXM-FM, October 22, 2019.
- ^ Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay (2018-06-09). "L'actualité de John Maynard Keynes". Le Journal de Montréal.
- ^ Lévesque, Catherine (October 5, 2021). "Bloc Québécois announces shadow cabinet". Montreal Gazette.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
External links
[edit]- Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay – Parliament of Canada biography
- Blog at the Journal de Montréal
- Biographical note on the VLB éditeur website
- Partial list of opinion articles at Le Devoir
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