Émilise Lessard-Therrien | |
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.jpg) Lessard-Therrien in 2022 | |
| Co-Spokesperson forQuébec Solidaire | |
| In office November 26, 2023 – April 29, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Manon Massé |
| Succeeded by | Christine Labrie (interim) |
| Member of theNational Assembly of Quebec forRouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue | |
| In office October 1, 2018 – August 28, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Luc Blanchette |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Bernard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1991-11-27)November 27, 1991 (age 33) Duhamel-Ouest, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Québec solidaire |
| Residence | Duhamel-Ouest, Québec |
| Education | UQAM Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue |
| Profession | Teacher,organic farmer |
Émilise Lessard-Therrien (born November 27, 1991) is aQuébécoise politician, who was a co-spokesperson ofQuébec solidaire from 2023 to 2024. She was elected to theNational Assembly of Quebec in the2018 Quebec general election.[1] She represented the electoral district ofRouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue as a member ofQuébec solidaire until her defeat in the2022 Quebec general election.[2]
In November 2023, Lessard-Therrien was elected co-spokesperson ofQuébec Solidaire at the party congress in Gatineau, defeatingRuba Ghazal andChristine Labrie. She obtained 50.3% of the votes in the second round, against 49.7% for Ghazal.[3] After taking leave for health reasons in late March 2024,[4] she resigned as co-spokesperson on April 29 of the same year.[5]
She is a proponent ofQuebec independence, regional decentralization andfood sovereignty in Quebec. She is engaged in campaigns against arsenic pollution emitted by the copper factory Fonderie Horne inRouyn-Noranda.[6]
In March 2019, Lessard-Therrien in an interview expressed concern over possible land grabs in the province by Chinese investors. She said that, withclimate change, Quebec would be one of the few places left with good, arable land and fresh water in a few years’ time and that the Temiscamingue region had much unexploited land that was being scouted by Chinese investors. She also said "Between us, we call them predators," she said. "They are predators of agricultural land. And we see them, we feel them. And what I’m saying is that fallow land still has potential to be farmed again, but land that belongs to China may never feed Quebecers, and it’s important that we be concerned now."[7][8] Responding to the criticism, she acknowledged that her statement was badly formulated, and that she was critical of large investors dominating agricultural lands, no matter where they are from.[9]
| 2022 Quebec general election:Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Daniel Bernard | 12,975 | 45.16 | +14.82 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Émilise Lessard-Therrien | 8,890 | 30.94 | -1.14 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jean-François Vachon | 3,232 | 11.25 | -7.06 | ||||
| Conservative | Robert Daigle | 2,202 | 7.66 | +6.79 | ||||
| Liberal | Arnaud Warolin | 1,255 | 4.37 | -12.02 | ||||
| Green | Chantal Corswarem | 178 | 0.62 | -0.72 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,732 | 98.93 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 310 | 1.07 | -0.29 | |||||
| Turnout | 29,042 | 64.91 | -0.69 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 44,742 | – | – | |||||
| Coalition Avenir Québecgain fromQuébec solidaire | Swing | +7.98 | ||||||
| 2018 Quebec general election:Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Émilise Lessard-Therrien | 9,304 | 32.08 | +20.52 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Jérémy G. Bélanger | 8,798 | 30.33 | +13.07 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Gilles Chapadeau | 5,311 | 18.31 | -13.92 | ||||
| Liberal | Luc Blanchette | 4,753 | 16.39 | -21.59 | ||||
| Green | Jessica Wells | 389 | 1.34 | |||||
| Conservative | Guillaume Lanouette | 253 | 0.87 | |||||
| Citoyens au pouvoir | Fernand St-Georges | 195 | 0.67 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,003 | 98.64 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 400 | 1.36 | -0.81 | |||||
| Turnout | 29,403 | 65.60 | +1.35 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 44,824 | |||||||
| Québec solidairegain fromLiberal | Swing | +21.06 | ||||||
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