Francis Drouin | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary to theMinister of Agriculture and Agri-Food | |
| Assumed office December 3, 2021 | |
| Minister | Lawrence MacAulay |
| Preceded by | Neil Ellis |
Francis Drouin | |
|---|---|
| President of Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie | |
| Assumed office July 8, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Adama Bictogo |
| Member of Parliament forGlengarry—Prescott—Russell | |
| Assumed office October 19, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre Lemieux |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1983-10-07)October 7, 1983 (age 41) Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Domestic partner | Kate Forrest |
| Residence(s) | Russell, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Ottawa La Cité collégiale |
| Profession | Consultant |
Francis DrouinMP (born October 7, 1983)[1] is a CanadianLiberal politician, who was elected to represent theriding ofGlengarry—Prescott—Russell in theHouse of Commons of Canada in the2015 federal election.
Drouin was born and raised inHawkesbury, Ontario.[2] After obtaining a diploma in business administration fromLa Cité collégiale, he attended theUniversity of Ottawa, where he earned a bachelor's degree in commerce. He worked as a special assistant toOntarioPremierDalton McGuinty for four years, and then joined a government relations firm as a communications consultant. He continued to work as a consultant in various capacities thereafter. He has volunteered on the board of hisalma mater, La Cité.
Drouin joined the Liberal Party when he was 17 years old, and served for two years as president of the Young Liberals in Glengarry—Prescott—Russell. He managed the Liberal campaigns there in the2011 federal and2014 provincial elections.[3] Drouin won the federal Liberal nomination for the 2015 federal election in January 2015.[4] He won the election, unseating three-termConservative incumbentPierre Lemieux by over 10,000 votes.
He is currently a member of theOfficial Languages Committee andAgriculture and Agri-Food
He was previously a sitting member of the committee on Covid-19 Pandemic andGovernment Operations and Estimates
On December 3, 2021, he was appointedParliamentary Secretary to theMinister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.[5]
In April 2018, Drouin was alleged to have groped a woman at aHalifax bar during the Liberal Party policy convention.[6] Drouin denied the allegations stating he was misidentified.[7] Police did not lay charges.[8]
In May 2024, Drouin received backlash after remarks about witnesses in theHouse of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages, calling them "full of shit" and referring their position on the issue as "extremist".[9][10][11]
| 2021 Canadian federal election:Glengarry—Prescott—Russell | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Francis Drouin | 30,362 | 46.1 | -1.4 | $90,470.57 | |||
| Conservative | Susan McArthur | 21,979 | 33.3 | -2.7 | $99,861.23 | |||
| New Democratic | Konstantine Malakos | 7,022 | 10.7 | +0.3 | $7,774.48 | |||
| People's | Brennan Austring | 4,458 | 6.8 | +5.0 | $0.00 | |||
| Green | Daniel Lapierre | 1,350 | 2.0 | -1.2 | $1,041.48 | |||
| Free | Marc Bisaillon | 422 | 0.6 | – | $1,105.14 | |||
| Independent | The Joker | 314 | 0.5 | – | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 65,907 | – | – | $122,997.84 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 901 | |||||||
| Turnout | 66,808 | 70.06 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 95,356 | |||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[12] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election:Glengarry—Prescott—Russell | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Francis Drouin | 31,293 | 47.56 | -5.71 | $82,180.98 | |||
| Conservative | Pierre Lemieux | 23,660 | 35.96 | -0.45 | $112,830.16 | |||
| New Democratic | Konstantine Malakos | 6,851 | 10.41 | +2.49 | $3,975.49 | |||
| Green | Marthe Lépine † | 2,113 | 3.21 | +1.41 | none listed | |||
| People's | Jean-Jacques Desgranges | 1,174 | 1.78 | none listed | ||||
| Libertarian | Darcy Neal Donnelly | 262 | 0.40 | -0.19 | none listed | |||
| Independent | Daniel John Fey | 239 | 0.36 | $4,778.11 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Marc-Antoine Gagnier | 199 | 0.30 | none listed | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 65,791 | 99.03 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 645 | 0.97 | +0.35 | |||||
| Turnout | 66,436 | 71.78 | -3.29 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 92,555 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | -2.63 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[13][14] † TheGreen Party of Canada dropped Marthe Lépine for her anti-abortion views; she ran as an independent instead.[15] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election:Glengarry—Prescott—Russell | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Francis Drouin | 34,189 | 53.28 | +22.68 | – | |||
| Conservative | Pierre Lemieux | 23,367 | 36.41 | -12.4 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Normand Laurin | 5,087 | 7.93 | -8.74 | – | |||
| Green | Genevieve Malouin-Diraddo | 1,153 | 1.8 | -1.78 | – | |||
| Libertarian | Jean-Serge Brisson | 377 | 0.59 | +0.25 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 64,173 | 100.0 | $222,406.73 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 399 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 64,572 | 75.6% | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 85,388 | |||||||
| Liberalgain fromConservative | Swing | 28.83% | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[16][17] | ||||||||