29 deputies elected in 2014 that will not be the next election campaign

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Marie-Renée Grondin

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Hard hard the policy? Several familiar faces have taken their reverence in the course of the mandate, others will finish, but have decided to pass the torch.

Here is a portrait of the personalities who leave the chessboard provincial policy, thereby making room for new faces who will be elected on the 1st of October next.

Particular fact observed by Eric Montigny, a professor in the department of political science, Laval University, none of the five candidates in the race for the leadership of the Parti québécois in 2015 will briguera the votes in the election of 2018.

None of the 5 candidates have officially submitted their candidacy for the leadership #PQ 2015 will be on the ranks in 2018…

— Eric Montigny (@Eric_Montigny) January 16, 2018

Liberal party
Ghislain Bolduc | Mégantic

Ghislain Bolduc

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Announcement of the departure : march 16, 2018. He will finish out his term.

Reason : He wishes to return to the pension to “carry out several projects” that he has “pushed back, delayed” since it is in politics.

Norbert Morin | Côte-du-Sud

Norbert Morin

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Announcement of the departure : march 9, 2018. He will end his mandate.

Reason : because of his age (nearly 73 years), it is estimated that another 4-year mandate would be “too much” for him.

Jean-Marc Fournier | Saint-Laurent

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Announcement of the departure : march 5, 2018. He will end his term

Reason : He believes that “the turn track is made”, that the “loop is closed”. “If we want new faces [in politics], although there are some who leave “, he explained.

Stéphanie Vallée Gatineau

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Announcement of the departure : February 28, 2018. She will complete her mandate

Reason : She wants to take a “break” from political life and she wants to spend more time with his spouse and children.

Peter Reid | Orford

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Announcement of the departure : 12 February. He will end his term

Reason : He wants to see grow up her son Louis who was only 10 years old.

André Drolet | Jean-Lesage

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Announcement of departure : 8 February 2018. He will end his mandate.

Reason : At the dawn of his 64 years, he wishes to devote more time to those he loves, a decision which was, however, “difficult”, he confided.

Karine Vallières | Richmond

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Announcement of departure: 5 February. She will complete her mandate

Reason: It now wishes to devote himself to his daughters, “to recover her personal life” and find a balance in his life.
 

Guy Hardy | Saint-François

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Announcement of the departure : January 19, 2018. He will end his mandate.

Reason : He takes his retirement. He wishes to spend time with his family.

Robert Dutil | Beauce-Sud

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Resignation: September 21, 2015

Reason: Ex-minister of public Security under the Charest government, it has not been called to sit on the Council of ministers of Philippe Couillard. He left politics and become illico vice-president of Canam-Bridges, the company of his family.

Gilles Ouimet | Fabre

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Resignation: August 24, 2015

Reason: He hoped to be a minister. He is also the father of young children. It should be noted that it has applied to become a judge, just a year after the elections.

Marguerite Blais | Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne

Resignation: August 20, 2015

Reason: The loss of her husband, who died of cancer, and the absence of challenge, as she has not been appointed minister in the government Couillard. Ms. Blais was the minister responsible for Seniors, in the Charest government.

Yves Bolduc | Jean-Talon

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Resignation: February 26, 2015

Reason: At the heart of various controversies, including his statement awkwardly about strip searches in schools, while he was minister of Education, he resigned and returned to medical practice. He was also the minister of Health Philippe Couillard in the era Charest.

Sam Hamad | Louis-Hébert

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Resignation: April 27, 2017

Reason: He was removed from his functions of president of the treasury Board in 2016, due to an investigation by the ethics commissioner regarding his links with the ex-minister and fundraiser, Marc-Yvan Côté. Even if it has not been the subject of a reprimand, a formal member, it has never been reinstated in the council of ministers. It now occupies the function of senior vice president at Globatech.

Parti québécois
François Gendron | Abitibi-Ouest

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Announcement of the departure : February 24, 2018. He will end his term

Reason : because of his age (he is the dean of the national Assembly) and many trips that are resulting in its functions.

Claude Cousineau | Bertrand

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Announcement of the departure : January 26, 2018

Reason : He referred to a “fatigue” of travel each week in Quebec city. It also wants to be near his family.

Alexandre Cloutier | Lac-Saint-Jean

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Announcement of the departure: January 16, 2018

Reason: He said no longer have the energy to seek a new mandate. It is also said to have had enough of the partisan games that “trivialize our institutions, kills our initiatives, needlessly divided and creates barriers that are often barricades of facade which does not stand up to the test of time”.

Agnès Maltais | Taschereau

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Announcement of the departure: January 16, 2018

Reason: It said no longer have the energy to run for a seventh term. After 20 years of active political life, it indicates you have the impression of having “looped the loop”.

Nicole Light | Pointe-aux-Trembles

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Announcement of the departure: January 16, 2018

Reason: Well she has been fighting a cancer of the tongue in 2015, it does not leave the policy for reasons of health, she argued. She wants to pass the torch with dignity, after “seven warrants of total self-giving”.

Bernard Drainville | Marie-Victorin

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Resignation: June 14, 2016

Reason: He left his seat to become a radio announcer at FM93. It has taken the place once occupied by Nathalie Normandeau, alongside Éric Duhaime le midi, before becoming the host of the afternoon on 98.5 FM. He also indicated that the departure of Pierre Karl Péladeau has “sawn” the legs and the led to do the same.

Pierre Karl Péladeau | Saint-Jérôme

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Resignation: may 2, 2016

Reason: He admitted that he faced “an agonizing choice”, which led him to opt for his family rather than for the hectic pace of the policy.

Stéphane Bédard | Chicoutimi

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Resignation: October 22, 2015

Reason: He argues that the past few years have been “gruelling”, and he wants to take time for his family and friends. It would not have digested that we remove his position as a parliamentary leader. Pierre-Karl Péladeau himself had preferred to Bernard Drainville.

Marjolain Dufour | René-Lévesque

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Resignation: September 10, 2015

Reason: He resigned for health reasons. He would have heart problems.

Élaine Zakaïb | Richelieu

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Resignation: September 29, 2014

Reason : She has resigned in order to revive the chain store Jacob in financial difficulties.

The Coalition avenir Québec
Gérard Deltell | Chauveau

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Resignation: April 7, 2015

Reason: He was relieved of his duties as house leader by its leader François Legault, with which it had tense relations. He made the jump on the federal scene and was elected with the conservatives in Louis-Saint-Laurent at the last election campaign.

Christian Dubé | Lévis

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Resignation: August 15, 2014

Reason: he was offered to become vice-president of the Quebec section of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

Québec Solidaire
Françoise David | Gouin

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Resignation : January 19, 2017

Reason: Insomnia, fatigue, and chronic back pain, stress caused by the lack of time to visit her new granddaughter are some of the factors that led to his withdrawal from political life.

Independent
Martine Ouellet | Vachon

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Reason for leaving : The first mp, “transparlementaire” (as she is also leader of the Bloc québécois), has indicated that it would not seek votes in the next provincial election in order to devote himself to his role of leader of the Bloc in Ottawa.

Death
Sylvie Roy | Arthabaska

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She died on 31 July 2016 of acute hepatitis. She sat then as member independent after having worn the colors of the CAQ and then previously of the ADQ.

Jacques Daoust | Verdun

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He succumbed to a cerebral vascular accident (STROKE), on August 3, 2017. He had left his post as minister and member of parliament on August 19, 2016.

Other impending departures?

• The PQ, rumor has it Nicolas Marceau (Rousseau) will announce shortly that they will not stand at the next election.
• Among the liberals, several members would think of their future. This would be the case of the president of the national Assembly, Jacques Chagnon (Westmount-Saint-Louis), Germain Chevarie (Îles-de-la-Madeleine), Raymond Bernier (Montmorency), Michel Matte (Portneuf), Serge Simard (Dubuc), Geoffrey Kelley (Jacques Cartier), and Laurent Lessard (Lotbinière-Frontenac). In addition, the state of the health of Pierre Paradis (Brome-Missisquoi), who suffered a concussion in January 2017, may not allow him to run again.