Simon-Pierre Diamond

Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Simon-Pierre Diamond


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predecessor= Pierre Moreau
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birth_place= Boucherville, Quebec
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party= Action démocratique du Québec
party colour= ADQ
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riding=Marguerite-D'Youville (2007-present)
portfolio= Environment, sustainable development, national parcs
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spouse= Catherine Goyer|

Simon-Pierre Diamond (born February 9, 1985 in Boucherville, Quebec) is a politician in the Province of Quebec, Canada. He currently represents the Marguerite-D'Youville district at the National Assembly of Quebec and is a member of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ).

In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected in the Quebec legislature. [ [http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/electionsQc2007/2007/03/27/030-Diamond-Jeune.shtml Le député le plus jeune de l'histoire québécoise] ] He and Parti Québécois (PQ) member André Boisclair are the only two people who broke the record established by PQ member Claude Charron in the 1970 election at age 23 [ [http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/biographies/109.html Bilan du Siècle - Claude Charron (1946-) Homme politique, animateur de télévision] ] .

Diamond was elected with 37% of the vote, defeating PQ candidate Sébastien Gagnon (31%) and Liberal incumbent Pierre Moreau (27%). He took office on April 12, 2007. [ [http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2007/04/12/005-AssermentationADQ.shtml Au tour de l'ADQ, Radio-Canada, April 12, 2007] ] On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Environment and Sustaining Development. [ [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070419/CPACTUALITES/70419084/6488/CPACTUALITES Des postes clés pour Gilles Taillon et Sébastien Proulx, Martin Ouellet, La Presse, April 19, 2007] ]

From 2004 to 2007, Diamond, a law student at Université de Montréal and a resident of Boucherville, served as President of the Youth Commission of the ADQ. He supports same-sex marriage, but believes that only the federal government has jurisdiction over that issue. [ [http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/christiane/modele-document.asp?docnumero=34748&numero=1880 Simon-Pierre Diamond : jeune député de 22 ans, "Christiane Charette" , March 28, 2007] ]

His wife, Catherine Goyer, who replaced him as President of the Youth Commission of the ADQ, ran for the ADQ in the district of Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques in a 2006 by-election, but finished fifth with less than 2% of the vote, behind Québec Solidaire and the Green Party of Quebec.

His father is a federal Liberal.

External links

* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Membres/notices/d/dias1.shtml Simon-Pierre DIAMOND] at National Assembly of Quebec
* [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070330/young_mna_070330/20070331?hub=TopStories Political rookie makes history in Quebec]

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