Mylène Freeman
Mylène Freeman | |
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Member of Parliament for Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel | |
In office May 2, 2011 – October 19, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Mario Laframboise |
Succeeded by | riding abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Stouffville, Ontario | March 7, 1989
Political party | New Democratic Party |
Mylène Freeman (born March 7, 1989) is a former Canadian politician who was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for the riding of Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel in Quebec. She was elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election after defeating incumbent Mario Laframboise of the Bloc Québécois.
Biography[]
Born in Stouffville, Ontario, she is fluent in both French and English.[1] She grew up fluently bilingual; she is the daughter of an Irish Canadian father and a French Canadian mother.[2]
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, where she studied political theory. She was co-president of the university's New Democratic Party student group and co-ordinator of the university's Women in House program, which has young women shadow female MPs in hopes of fostering their interest in getting involved in politics.[1]
In the 2009 Montreal municipal election, Freeman stood on behalf of Projet Montréal in Outremont as a candidate for borough councillor in .[1][2]
Freeman defeated Bloc Québécois MP Mario Laframboise by 8,000 votes in Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel in the 2011 federal election.[1] She was one of five McGill students, alongside Charmaine Borg, Laurin Liu, Matthew Dubé and Jamie Nicholls, elected to Parliament in the 2011 election following the NDP's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec.[1] In 2015 she was named opposition critic for the status of women.[3]
In the 2015 election, Dubé was re-elected while Freeman and the other three were defeated. Subsequent to her loss, Freeman went on to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Virginia.[4]
Electoral record[]
2015 Canadian federal election: Mirabel | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Bloc Québécois | Simon Marcil | 18,710 | 31.49 | +0.48 | – | |||
New Democratic | Mylène Freeman | 17,873 | 30.08 | -19.47 | – | |||
Liberal | Karl Trudel | 15,514 | 26.11 | +18.36 | – | |||
Conservative | Gordon Ferguson | 6,020 | 10.13 | +0.91 | – | |||
Green | Jocelyn Gifford | 1,301 | 2.19 | +0.17 | – | |||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 59,418 | 100.0 | $225,548.06 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 1,178 | – | – | |||||
Turnout | 60,596 | – | – | |||||
Eligible voters | 87,622 | |||||||
Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic | Swing | +9.98 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada[5][6] |
2011 Canadian federal election: Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
New Democratic | Mylène Freeman | 25,801 | 44.24 | +31.84 | $0.00 | |||
Bloc Québécois | Mario Laframboise | 16,876 | 28.94 | -19.16 | $77,499.72 | |||
Liberal | Daniel Fox | 7,175 | 12.30 | -5.85 | $67,191.80 | |||
Conservative | Yvan Patry | 6,497 | 11.14 | -6.29 | $30,881.78 | |||
Green | Stephen Matthews | 1,506 | 2.58 | -1.16 | $888.62 | |||
Independent | Michel Daniel Guibord | 342 | 0.59 | – | $1,904.02 | |||
Marxist–Leninist | Christian-Simon Ferlatte | 123 | 0.21 | +0.03 | $0.00 | |||
Total valid vote/Expense limit | 58,320 | 100.00 |
Source: Elections Canada
References[]
- ^ a b c d e Marian Scott (May 4, 2011). "McGill 5 head off to House of Commons". The Gazette.
- ^ a b "Mylène Freeman". Projet Montréal. Archived from the original on May 6, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011. See also "‘No joke. Your daughter just elected Quebec MP’," Stouffville Sun-Tribune, May 6, 2011.
- ^ "Polibriefs". Ottawa Citizen. 23 January 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^ "Mylène Freeman". LinkedIn.
- ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Mirabel, 30 September 2015
- ^ "Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates". Archived from the original on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
External links[]
- Mylène Freeman – Parliament of Canada biography
- Speeches, votes and activity at OpenParliament.ca
- Web Site
- 1989 births
- Anglophone Quebec people
- Canadian people of Irish descent
- Women members of the House of Commons of Canada
- Franco-Ontarian people
- Living people
- McGill University alumni
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
- New Democratic Party MPs
- Quebec people of Irish descent
- People from Whitchurch-Stouffville
- Women in Quebec politics
- 21st-century Canadian politicians
- 21st-century Canadian women politicians