Éric Duhaime

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Éric Duhaime

Éric Duhaime (born April 15, 1969) is a Canadian conservative columnist, radio host, and politician serving as leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec since April 17, 2021.[1][2][3][4] During his radio career, he has been associated with radio poubelle (literally "garbage radio"), a style of provocative right-wing radio popular in Quebec City.[5][6][7]

Quick Facts Leader of Conservative Party of Quebec, Preceded by ...
Éric Duhaime
Duhaime in 2022.
Duhaime in 2022
Leader of Conservative Party of Quebec
Assumed office
April 17, 2021
Preceded byAdrien D. Pouliot
Personal details
Born
Éric Joseph Duhaime

(1969-04-15) April 15, 1969 (age 55)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyConservative (federal)
Conservative (provincial)
Other political
affiliations
CAQ (2012–2020)
ADQ (2003–2012)
Alma materUniversité de Montréal
École nationale d'administration publique
OccupationJournalist
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Early life and education

Born on April 15, 1969, in Montreal, Duhaime holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the Université de Montréal and a Master's degree from École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP).[8]

Career

He writes for the Journal de Montréal and the National Post[9] and is also a blogger. He participated in various blogs such as Les analystes [10] and also ran a blog on the pages of Journal de Québec (called En droite ligne).[11] He hosted Le retour d'Éric Duhaime on FM93 in Quebec City. He also worked as part of public affairs programs broadcast on Noovo, Télé-Québec, Radio X, and 98,5 FM.[6] His radio commentary at Radio X has been described as radio poubelle otherwise known as trash radio,[5][6][7]

In 2017, he allegedly helped fellow Rebel Media contributor Jack Posobiec translate the leaked emails from the Emmanuel Macron presidential campaign.[12]

He also worked for the Montreal Economic Institute, a free market think tank.[13]

Political career

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Perspective

Duhaime spent more than a decade as a political advisor for different leaders in Ottawa and Quebec City. He was an advisor for Stockwell Day during his leadership of the Canadian Alliance from 2001 to 2004, Mario Dumont from 2003 to 2008 when Dumont was leader of the Action démocratique du Québec and Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québécois.[14] He was one of the campaign organizers for Marc Bellemare during his mayoralty in Quebec City with Vision Quebec from 2004 to 2006. He made his first run for office in 2003, when he ran for the ADQ in Deux-Montagnes, in which he placed third. In 2010, Duhaime co-founded the Réseau Liberté-Québec and the page Quebec fier (RLQ) along with Joanne Marcotte, Roy Eappen, Gérard Laliberté, Ian Sénéchal and Guillaume Leduc. The RLQ is a movement inspired by the advocating of a revival of conservatism and libertarianism in Quebec.[15]

Leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec

On November 22, 2020, Duhaime announced he would be running in the Conservative Party of Quebec leadership election to succeed Adrien D. Pouliot.[16][17][18] He won the election with just under 96% of the vote.[19]

Duhaime led the Quebec Conservatives in the 2022 Quebec general election, where he boosted the party's popular vote support from 1.46 percent in 2018 to nearly 13 percent. The party, however, won no seats in the National Assembly.[20]

Personal life

Duhaime is openly gay, coming out in his 2017 book La fin de l'homosexualité et le dernier gay.[21]

Electoral record

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2022 Quebec general election: Chauveau
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Coalition Avenir QuébecSylvain Lévesque20,29246.84-0.22
ConservativeÉric Duhaime13,79431.84+23.23
Québec solidaireJimena Ruiz Aragon3,8168.81-1.54
Parti QuébécoisCharles-Hubert Riverin3,3077.63-1.57
LiberalIgor Pivovar1,6513.81-18.66
Parti nulRenaud Blais2130.49
Climat QuébecChristine Lepage2010.46
Équipe AutonomisteNicolas Bouffard Savoie440.10
Total valid votes 43,31898.59
Total rejected ballots 6191.41
Turnout 43,93775.68
Eligible voters 58,059
Source(s)
electionsquebec.qc.ca
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More information Candidate, Votes cast ...
Results of the 2021 Conservative Party of Quebec leadership election[19]
Candidate
Votes cast  %
Éric Duhaime 9,773 95.99%
Daniel Brisson 408 4.01%
Rejected/Spoiled Ballots 2 0.02%
Total 10,183 100.00
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2003 Quebec general election: Deux-Montagnes
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Parti QuébécoisHélène Robert12,43239.04-7.99
LiberalMarc Lauzon12,09937.99+7.02
Action démocratiqueÉric Duhaime6,90721.69+0.95
UFPJulien Demers4081.28+0.98[a]
Total valid votes 31,84698.28
Total rejected ballots 5571.72+0.58
Turnout 32,40374.37-2.92
Electors on the lists 43,571
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  1. Results taken from Socialist Democracy.

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