Pierre Ducasse
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| Pierre Ducasse at an NDP rally in Ottawa in January 2008 | |
| Associate President of the New Democratic Party | |
| In office 2000 – June 25, 2002 |
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| Majority | 2001: 83.5% |
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| Born | August 18, 1972 |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Université Laval |
| Website | www.pierreducasse.ca |
Pierre Ducasse (born August 18, 1972), a Canadian politician, is a prominent New Democratic Party (NDP) activist.[1]
He grew up in Sept-Îles, Quebec, and studied at Université Laval.[1] A party member since age 17, he was appointed interim associate president of the federal party in 2000, and was elected to the post at the NDP convention in Winnipeg in November 2001.[1][2]
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[edit] 2003 NDP leadership election
In January 2003, he became the first francophone Quebecer to run for the federal leadership of the party.[2] Although he placed fifth among the six candidates, his campaign was widely acclaimed for raising the profile of the NDP in Quebec and vice versa. Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress,[3] endorsed him prior to the first ballot.
Jack Layton, the Quebec-born winner of the leadership election, appointed Ducasse to be the party's Quebec lieutenant and official spokesman in Quebec. Ducasse held the post of Quebec Lieutenant through two elections until the spring of 2007 when he was replaced by Thomas Mulcair, a former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Quebec cabinet minister.
[edit] Federal elections
Ducasse was the NDP candidate for the riding of Manicouagan three times, first in the federal election of 1997, and then in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections.[4] In 2008, Ducasse was the NDP candidate in the riding of Hull-Aylmer.[5]
In 2004, he finished third Manicouagan, in a race won by Gérard Asselin of the Bloc Québécois.[4] In 2006, again in Manicouagan, Ducasse placed fourth, but improved his overall result to 4,657 votes or 12.8%.[4] Ducasse received his best result to date in 2008 in Hull-Aylmer, where he placed third with 10,424 votes, for 19.83% of all votes cast in the riding.[5] Liberal Marcel Proulx won the riding with 19,747 votes, or 37.47%, while Bloc Québécois candidate Raphaël Déry finished in second with 11 635 votes, or 22.07%.[5]
[edit] 2009 municipal election
Ducasse ran the Gatineau municipal election, 2009 on November 1 of that year. He ran for Gatineau City Council in the Hull–Val-Tétreau District. He lost however, to two-term incumbent Denise Laferrière. The district is centred in Downtown Hull.
[edit] Quotations
- Pour avoir les résultats que vous n'avez jamais eu, il faut faire ce que vous n'avez jamais fait (To get the results you have never had, you must do what you have never done.) - Pierre Ducasse, NDP Leadership Convention
- This party is suffering from electile dysfunction. - Pierre Ducasse, NDP Leadership Campaign Tour, 2002–03
[edit] Electoral record (partial)
| 2008 federal election : Hull—Aylmer edit | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | (x)Marcel Proulx | 19,750 | 37.45 | $79,057 | ||
| Bloc Québécois | Raphaël Déry | 11,625 | 22.05 | $69,097 | ||
| New Democratic Party | Pierre Ducasse | 10,454 | 19.83 | $45,531 | ||
| Conservative | Paul Fréchette | 7,996 | 15.16 | $56,752 | ||
| Green | Frédéric Pouyot | 2,784 | 5.28 | $3,327 | ||
| Marxist-Leninist | Gabriel Girard-Bernier | 121 | 0.23 | none listed | ||
| Total valid votes/Expenditure limit | 52,730 | 100.00 | $89,492 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 359 | |||||
| Turnout | 53,089 | 61.00 | ||||
| Electors on the lists | 87,036 | |||||
| 2006 federal election : Manicouagan edit | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | Expenditures | |
| Bloc Québécois | (x)Gérard Asselin | 18,601 | 51.10 | -7.41 | $57,481 | |
| Conservative | Pierre Paradis | 6,910 | 18.98 | +14.06 | $10,185 | |
| Liberal | Randy Jones | 5,214 | 14.32 | -10.56 | $21,522 | |
| New Democratic Party | Pierre Ducasse | 4,657 | 12.79 | +2.46 | $19,632 | |
| Green | Jacques Gélineau | 824 | 2.26 | +0.90 | $373 | |
| Independent | Eric Vivier | 195 | 0.54 | none listed | ||
| Total valid votes | 36,401 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 388 | |||||
| Turnout | 36,789 | 57.00 | +6.14 | |||
| Electors on the lists | 64,537 | |||||
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.
| 2004 federal election : Manicouagan edit | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | Expenditures | |
| Bloc Québécois | (x)Gérard Asselin | 19,040 | 58.51 | +0.31 | $55,674 | |
| Liberal | Anthony Detroio | 8,097 | 24.88 | -5.00 | $50,362 | |
| New Democratic Party | Pierre Ducasse | 3,361 | 10.33 | +8.68 | $22,691 | |
| Conservative | Pierre Paradis | 1,601 | 4.92 | -5.35 | $4,449 | |
| Green | Les Parsons | 444 | 1.36 | $901 | ||
| Total valid votes | 32,543 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 589 | |||||
| Turnout | 33,132 | 50.86 | ||||
| Electors on the lists | 65,142 | |||||
Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution. Conservative Party percentages are contrasted with the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative percentages from 2000. Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Biographie [Biography]" (in French). Pierre Ducasse, candidat à la chefferie du NPD. Pierre Ducasse. http://www.pierreducasse.ca/2003/biographie.html. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ a b "Pierre Ducasse joins NDP leadership race". CTV News. June 25, 2002. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/story/20020625/ducasee_ndp_leadership_020625/. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ^ Fowler, Tim (June 2008). A Crisis of Social Democracy: Organized Labour and the NDP in an Era of Neoliberalism. p. 105. http://dr.library.brocku.ca/bitstream/handle/10464/2808/Brock_Fowler_Tim_2008.pdf. "Pierre Ducasse, a member of the NDP's federal executive, was endorsed by Ken Georgetti, president of the CLC."
- ^ a b c "MANICOUAGAN, Quebec (1966 - )". History of Federal Ridings since 1867. Parliament of Canada. http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/hfer.asp?Include=&Language=E&rid=422&Search=Det. Retrieved November 15, 2001.
- ^ a b c "HULL--AYLMER, Quebec (1984 - )". History of Federal Ridings since 1867. Parliament of Canada. http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/FederalRidingsHistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Det&Include=Y&rid=902. Retrieved November 15, 2001.
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- 1972 births
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- New Democratic Party candidates in the 1997 Canadian federal election
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- New Democratic Party candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election
- People from Sept-Îles, Quebec
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