Her Worship
Catherine Fournier
Catherine Fournier in 2018
Mayor of Longueuil
Assumed office
November 14, 2021[1]
Preceded bySylvie Parent
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Marie-Victorin
In office
December 5, 2016 – November 7, 2021
Preceded byBernard Drainville
Succeeded byShirley Dorismond
Personal details
Born (1992-04-07) 7 April 1992[2]
Sainte-Julie, Quebec
NationalityCanadian
Political partyIndependent (2019–2021)
Other political
affiliations		Parti Québécois (before 2019) Coalition Longueuil (2021-present)

Catherine Fournier (born 7 April 1992) is a Canadian politician, who was elected as mayor of Longueuil on November 7, 2021. She is the third female mayor in the city's history.

She was previously member of the National Assembly of Quebec, having been elected in a by-election on December 5, 2016 at the age of 24.[3] She represented the electoral district of Marie-Victorin. Fournier was the youngest member of the National Assembly, and the youngest woman ever elected to that body.[4]

Originally elected as a member of the Parti Québécois, Fournier won a full term in 2018 even amid the PQ's meltdown in Greater Montreal; she was the only surviving PQ member from the metro area. However, she quit the PQ on March 11, 2019 to sit as an independent MNA. She believed the party had lost its way ideologically, though she still considers herself a committed sovereigntist.[5][6]

Before her election to the National Assembly, Fournier ran for the Bloc Québécois in the 2015 federal election in the riding of Montarville, finishing second. After her defeat, she was named as the party's vice-president. A few weeks later, Fournier left the Bloc Quebecois position to join Parti Quebecois as a political attaché of PQ leader Pierre Karl Péladeau.[7]

Early life

Fournier was born in Sainte-Julie, Quebec on 7 April 1992. She holds an economics major and political science minor from the Université de Montréal. She was a political blogger and columnist for 103.3 FM.[2]

Sexual Assault

In 2023, Fournier revealed she had been the victim of sexual assault by Harold Lebel, a former Quebec MNA. The assault took place during the evening of October 20, 2017, while Fournier and Lebel, who were PQ MNAs at that time, were in Rimouski to introduce their party's plan to combat poverty.[8]

In 2022, Lebel was found guilty of sexual assault by a jury and sentenced to 8 months in prison.[9] The identity of the victim had been under a publication ban, but Fournier requested that the ban be lifted in 2023.[8]

Electoral record

Federal

Montarville

2015 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
LiberalMichel Picard18,84832.54+20.03–
Bloc QuébécoisCatherine Fournier16,46028.42-0.66–
New DemocraticDjaouida Sellah14,29624.68-19.85–
ConservativeStéphane Duranleau6,28410.85+1.25–
GreenOlivier Adam1,3882.40-0.05–
LibertarianClaude Leclair6411.11––
Total valid votes/Expense limit 57,917100.00 $207,758.92
Total rejected ballots 8811.50–
Turnout 58,79877.86–
Eligible voters 75,521
Liberal gain from New Democratic Swing +19.94
Source: Elections Canada[10][11]

Provincial

2018 Quebec general election: Marie-Victorin
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Parti QuébécoisCatherine Fournier8,95230.82-21.68
Coalition Avenir QuébecMartyne Prévost8,24728.39+14.24
Québec solidaireCarl Lévesque6,29521.67+7.48
LiberalSonia Ziadé4,41815.21+1.77
GreenLaeticia Poiré-Hill6252.15-0.47
New DemocraticMyriam de Grandpré-Ruel3101.07
CINQShirley Cedent980.34+0.09
Marxist–LeninistPierre Chénier600.21
Équipe AutonomisteFlorent Portron450.15-0.03
Total valid votes 29,050 98.16
Total rejected ballots 546 1.84 +0.64
Turnout 29,596 62.91 +37.20
Eligible voters 47,044
Parti Québécois hold Swing -17.96
Source(s)
"Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

Marie-Victorin

Quebec provincial by-election, 2016
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Parti QuébécoisCatherine Fournier6,30252.49+14.33
Québec solidaireCarl Lévesque1,70314.19+2.62
Coalition Avenir QuébecJulie Chapdelaine1,69914.15-6.45
LiberalNormand Parisien1,61313.44-12.61
GreenVincent Charbonneau3152.62+0.30
Option nationaleFabien Villemaire1090.91+0.11
Parti travailliste du QuébecRoch Dumont1010.84
ConservativeHoang Nam Nguyen900.75
Changement intégrité pour notre QuébecShirley Cedent300.25
Équipe AutonomisteFlorent Portron220.18+0.04
Parti indépendantisteÉtienne Turgeon Pelletier210.17
Total valid votes 12,005100.00
Total rejected ballots 1471.21-0.70
Turnout 12,15225.71-40.62
Electors on the lists 47,267
Parti Québécois hold Swing +5.85

References

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