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Christine Moore | |
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| Member of Parliament forAbitibi—Témiscamingue | |
| In office May 2, 2011 – September 11, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Marc Lemay |
| Succeeded by | Sébastien Lemire |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1983-10-21)October 21, 1983 (age 42) |
| Political party | New Democratic (federal) Parti Quebecois (provincial) |
| Residence | La Reine, Quebec |
| Profession | Nurse |
Christine Moore (born October 21, 1983)[1] is a Canadian politician andnurse who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding ofAbitibi—Témiscamingue from 2011 to 2019. A member of theNew Democratic Party (NDP), she was first elected in the2011 Canadian federal election, defeatingBloc Québécois MPMarc Lemay, who had held the riding since 2004.[2] She was re-elected during the2015 federal election.[3] She did not run for re-election in the2019 federal election. Despite her Anglophone-sounding name, Moore is a Francophone.
Moore was born inLa Reine, Quebec.[4]
Moore was trained as a medical technician; she was educated at 52e Medical coy (Army Force) Sherbrooke and graduated in 2005. She earned a diploma of college studies in nursing from the Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue in 2008 and a B.Sc. in nursing from theUniversité du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) in 2010.[5] She completed a one-month humanitarian internship inSenegal as part of her nursing degree at UQAT in 2009,[5] and she served with theCanadian Forces for over three years.[5][6] She is also a member ofNurses Without Borders.[5]
Moore finished a distant fourth as the NDP candidate in Abitibi—Témiscamingue in2006 and2008; both times, she came up well short of the 10-percent threshold to have her campaign expenses refunded. However, on her third try in 2011, she defeated Lemay by 9,500 votes as part of the NDP wave that swept through Quebec.
On May 26, 2011, Moore was appointed the federalOfficial Opposition critic for military procurement. The key files Moore was responsible for included the purchase of F 35s, the modernization of various navy ships, and the replacement of search and rescue aircraft. Consequently, she worked mostly on the Standing Committee onNational Defence, the main forum for addressing these issues. She also assistedJack Harris with his duties as federal Official Opposition critic for National Defence.
In November 2013, Moore was appointed deputy critic for energy and natural resources for the NDP. The key files covered by this responsibility: forestry, mines, nuclear & pipelines. In 2014, Moore brought forward a motion to promote a national strategy on forestry in Canada. This motion asked that the government should work in consultation with provinces and territories, First Nations, stakeholders, and the public to put forward, a national strategy to advance Canada's forestry sector, with the objectives of creating value-added jobs, developing our forests in a sustainable way, diversifying and promoting wood-based products and developing building systems, and by expanding international markets for Canadian wood products.[7]
During the 2011–2012 New Democratic Party leadership race, Moore endorsedRomeo Saganash.
Moore anonymously accusedLiberal MPsMassimo Pacetti andScott Andrews of sexual harassment in 2014, causing both to be expelled from the Liberal caucus. It became known that she was the accuser in 2018.[8][9]
In January 2015, Moore was appointed deputy critic for health for the NDP. She was reelected at thefederal election held a few months later, with a somewhat reduced plurality.
In February 2016, Moore was elected to the executive committee of theCommonwealth Parliamentary Association as a vice-chair. She also served as vice-chair of the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development.
Moore gave birth during the election campaign in 2015. She had been pushing for more resources for MPs with newborns since she came back to Parliament in fall in 2015: high chairs were put in parliamentary cafeteria, the Commons Board of Internal Economy also changed the name of the "spouses lounge" near the Commons Chamber to "family room" to better accommodate the changing demographics of the House.[10]
On March 24, 2016, Moore introduced the bill that would eliminate the federal tax on certain baby products.[11]
On May 8, 2018,CBC News reported that Moore had had a non-consensual sexual encounter with a disabled Canadian Forces member, Glen Kirkland, who had come toParliament Hill in 2013 to testify about military treatment of injured soldiers and veterans. She was suspended from the NDP caucus the same day, and Moore said that they had been in a romantic relationship.[12] On July 19, 2018, party leader Jagmeet Singh publicly announced the results of an investigation into his MP's behaviour exonerating her from the allegations and reinstating her to her previous caucus duties.[13]
On June 7, 2019 Moore announced she would not be seeking re-election in the 2019 federal election.[14]
Moore ran as aParti Québecois candidate in the2022 Quebec provincial election[15] inUngava, coming in fourth.
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Christine Moore | 20,636 | 41.5 | -9.75 | – | |||
| Liberal | Claude Thibault | 14,733 | 29.6 | +23.68 | – | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Yvon Moreau | 9,651 | 19.4 | -12.1 | – | |||
| Conservative | Benoit Fortin | 3,425 | 6.9 | -3.0 | – | |||
| Green | Aline Bégin | 859 | 1.7 | +0.27 | – | |||
| Rhinoceros | Pascal Le Fou Gélinas | 425 | 0.9 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,470 | 100.0 | $253,763.89 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 741 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 51,481 | 62.25 | +2.4 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 82,695 | |||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[16][17] | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Christine Moore | 24,763 | 51.22 | +41.72 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Marc Lemay | 15,258 | 31.56 | -16.35 | ||||
| Conservative | Steven Hébert | 4,777 | 9.88 | -9.05 | ||||
| Liberal | Suzie Grenon | 2,859 | 5.91 | -14.82 | ||||
| Green | Patrick Rochon | 694 | 1.44 | -0.79 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 48,351 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 654 | 1.33 | ||||||
| Turnout | 49,005 | 59.85 | ||||||
| New Democratic Partygain fromBloc Québécois | Swing | +29.0 | ||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Marc Lemay | 20,929 | 47.91 | -4.42 | $96,091 | |||
| Liberal | Gilbert Barrette | 9,055 | 20.73 | +6.92 | $29,810 | |||
| Conservative | Pierre Grandmaitre | 8,267 | 18.93 | -3.66 | $742 | |||
| New Democratic | Christine Moore | 4,151 | 9.50 | +0.96 | $3,377 | |||
| Green | Bruno Côté | 976 | 2.23 | -0.50 | $742 | |||
| Independent | Ghislain Loiselle | 302 | 0.69 | – | $644 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 43,680 | 100.00 | $101,466 | |||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Marc Lemay | 24,637 | 52.33 | -5.32 | $73,954 | |||
| Conservative | Marie-Josée Carbonneau | 10,634 | 22.59 | +17.01 | $6,194 | |||
| Liberal | Charles Lavergne | 6,501 | 13.81 | -17.17 | $21,500 | |||
| New Democratic | Christine Moore | 4,022 | 8.54 | +5.15 | $2,782 | |||
| Green | Patrick Rancourt | 1,283 | 2.73 | +0.34 | $710 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,077 | 100.00 | $94,667 | |||||
| Bloc Québécoishold | Swing | -11.2 | ||||||