Simon Jolin-Barrette
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Simon Jolin-Barrette MNA |
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Assumed office April 7, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre Duchesne |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Borduas | |
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| Political party | Coalition Avenir Québec |
Simon Jolin-Barrette is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 Quebec election. He represents the riding of Borduas as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ).
Jolin-Barrette was part of a group of 40 young entrepreneurs who joined the CAQ at the time of the party's founding in 2011. He ran as the CAQ candidate in Marie-Victorin in the 2012 Quebec election, coming in second to Bernard Drainville of the Parti Québécois (PQ).
In the 2014 election, Jolin-Barrette defeated the PQ candidate in Borduas, Pierre Duchesne (the then Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology), by 99 votes. Notwithstanding the small margin of defeat, Duchesne and the PQ chose not to seek a judicial recount of the ballots.
Jolin-Barrette grew up in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, a south-shore suburb of Montreal. He is a practicing lawyer, with a BCL (civil law), Juris Doctor (common law) and Master of Laws from the Université de Sherbrooke, where he wrote his Masters Thesis on the subject of Senate reform (comparing the Senate of Canada to the Australian Senate).
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