Elaine MacDonald
Brome—Missisquoi: Piper Huggins[edit] Piper Elizabeth Huggins studied political economics at Concordia University. She worked for ten years an organizer and campaign director for the federal New Democratic Party in Quebec, and from 2006 to 2008 she was president of the party's Quebec section. She herself was a party candidate in 2000 and 2004. Huggins was elected to the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council in the 2009 Montreal municipal election as a Projet Montréal candidate. At the time of the election, she worked at the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women at McGill University. Electoral record Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner 2000 federal Saint-Laurent—Cartierville New Democratic Party 1,070 2.40 5/8 Stéphane Dion, Liberal 2004 federal Brome—Missisquoi New Democratic Party 1,177 2.66 5/5 Denis Paradis, Liberal 2009 Montreal municipal Le Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council, Jeanne-Mance Projet Montréal 3,457 42.57 1/3 herself Hull—Aylmer: Pierre Laliberté[edit] Pierre Laliberté has been a teacher and member of the Quebec delegation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he previously received a doctorate in economics. In 2001 he started working as chief economist for the Canadian Labour Congress. In this election he received 12,6% of the vote, finishing third and losing to Liberal incumbent Marcel Proulx. LaSalle—Émard: Rebecca Blaikie[edit] Rebecca Blaikie (born January 1, 1978 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) was the candidate for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Prime Minister Paul Martin's electoral district of LaSalle—Émard in Montreal, Quebec. She received 4.97% of the vote share, and was not elected. She did however receive a large amount of press coverage. She is the daughter of Bill Blaikie, a veteran NDP Member of Parliament from Winnipeg, and current Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. She has a degree in Canadian social history from the University of Winnipeg and currently works for the NDP in Quebec. Richelieu: Charles Bussières[edit] Charles Bussières was raised in Montreal. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Communications and has been a New Democratic Party candidate in two elections. As of 2009, he is provincial organizer of the federal NDP's Quebec section. He also works as a musician, under the name Charly Buss. He was part of a Montreal group called Zolof (who are not to be confused with the American group of the same name) in the 1990s and released a solo EP entitled Buss in 2002. The latter release included the song "Globalize This!". Electoral record Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner 2000 federal Verchères—Les Patriotes New Democratic Party 1,074 1.96 6/6 Stéphane Bergeron, Bloc Québécois 2004 federal Richelieu New Democratic Party 1,017 2.09 4/6 Louis Plamondon, Bloc Québécois