Sadia Groguhé | |
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| Member of Parliament forSaint-Lambert | |
| In office May 2, 2011 – October 19, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Josée Beaudin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1962-11-09)November 9, 1962 (age 63) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Children | 4 |
| Profession | Guidance counselor |
Sadia Groguhé (Arabic:ساديا جروغوه; born November 9, 1962) is aFrench-Canadian politician ofAlgerian descent. A municipal councillor in the French city ofIstres from 1995 to 2000, Groguhé and her husband immigrated to Canada in 2005.
In the2011 federal election, she was elected to theHouse of Commons of Canada as theMember of Parliament for theelectoral district ofSaint-Lambert under the banner of theNew Democratic Party. She was defeated for reelection in the new electoral district ofLongueuil—Charles-LeMoyne in the2015 election.
Groguhé was born on November 9, 1962, inIstres,France, toAlgerian immigrants, one of twelve children.[1] She has aMaster's degree,[1] practiced as a psychologist, and did community work.[2]
In France, she worked in the area of social and occupational integration for youth and adults in distress. Trained intransactional analysis as a therapeutic tool, she held sessions as a trainer. Groguhé was chair of the Istres equality association.
Groguhé ran as an independent candidate in 1994’s cantonal election. Noticed by Jacques Siffre, Istres’socialist mayor, she ran municipally in 1995. Groguhé was elected and was a municipal councillor from 1995 to 2000.[1] She was responsible for integration, and left her position after the birth of her children.
Groguhé and her husband, who is originally from theIvory Coast, decided to leave France so their children would not be discriminated against because of their background. They submitted their visa requests in 2003 and immigrated to Canada in 2005.
Naturalized as a Canadian citizen in 2010, Groguhé joined theNew Democratic Party. She was a candidate for the party in the2011 federal election in theMontreal riding ofSaint-Lambert and defeated the incumbent Bloc MP, Josée Beaudin, with 42.65% of the vote.
After her election, Groguhé was appointed the NDP’s assistant critic forimmigration,citizenship, and multiculturalism.[1] During her parliamentary tenure, Groguhé advocated for modernizing the immigration application system.[3]
From April 19, 2012, to August 12, 2013, Groguhé was theDeputy House Leader of the NDP and theOfficial Opposition. She then became the NDP'sDeputy Whip, which meant she was also theOfficial Opposition Deputy Whip, and gave up the assistant critic portfolios she had held since 2011.[1]
In June 2014, theBoard of Internal Economy found that a group of NDP MPs, including Groguhé, had improperly used Parliamentary resources for partisan activities by sending out nearly two million mass mailings, costing 1.17 million dollars to differentridings, including some that were holdingby-elections at the time.[4] Groguhé kept the deputy whip position until she lost her bid for re-election in the new riding ofLongueuil—Saint-Hubert in the2015 federal election.[1]
FollowingJack Layton's death, she supportedThomas Mulcair in the2012 NDP leadership race. In the2017 leadership contest, Groguhé was a supporter ofPeter Julian prior to his exit from the race.[5]
Following her defeat, Groguhé became a guidance counselor.[6] Groguhé announced in April 2017 that she is running for Mayor ofLongueuil in the2017 Quebec municipal election.[7] She finished third with 14.7% of the vote.[8]
Groguhé is the mother of four children, and is married.[2]
| 2015 Canadian federal election:Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Sherry Romanado | 18,301 | 35.39 | +22.07 | $26,644.67 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Philippe Cloutier | 13,974 | 27.03 | -1.27 | $54,305.34 | |||
| New Democratic | Sadia Groguhé | 12,468 | 24.11 | -21.32 | – | |||
| Conservative | Thomas Barré | 4,961 | 9.59 | -0.94 | – | |||
| Green | Mario Leclerc | 1,510 | 2.92 | +0.51 | $6,229.28 | |||
| Rhinoceros | Matthew Iakov Liberman | 325 | 0.63 | – | – | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Pierre Chénier | 168 | 0.32 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 51,707 | 100.00 | $220,839.26 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 925 | 1.76 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 52,632 | 62.87 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 83,719 | |||||||
| Liberalgain fromNew Democratic | Swing | +21.70 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election:Saint-Lambert | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Sadia Groguhé | 18,705 | 42.64 | +28.19 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Josée Beaudin | 11,353 | 25.88 | -11.74 | ||||
| Liberal | Roxane Stanners | 8,463 | 19.29 | -9.21 | ||||
| Conservative | Qais Hamidi | 4,396 | 10.02 | -5.78 | ||||
| Green | Carmen Budilean | 944 | 2.15 | -1.45 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 43,861 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 584 | 1.31 | +0.14 | |||||
| Turnout | 44,445 | 60.60 | +1.15 | |||||