Jonathan Genest-Jourdain
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Jonathan Genest-Jourdain is the New Democratic Party
Member of Parliament for Manicouagan
, first elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election. He succeeded Gérard Asselin
of the Bloc Québécois
. Genest-Jourdain is a lawyer who comes from the Innu
reserve
village of Uashat-Maliotenam.
Jonathan Genest-Jourdain was born in 1979 in Uashat, an Indian reserve located in the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality, Québec, one of the five MRCs of the Côte-Nord administrative region in Québec. A lawyer by trade, he obtained a law degree from Laval University in 2004 and started a graduate certificate in corporate law. He is a member of the Quebec Bar since 2007. He has devoted himself to the application of professional principles, including social intervention. He entered municipal politics in Sept-Îles in 2009. Through his legal work, Jonathan has been an ardent activist for Aboriginal, Quebec and Canadian heritage issues.
After the elections of May 2, 2011, Jonathan Genest-Jourdain is the MP for the riding of Manicouagan under the New Democratic Party banner. He became the first aboriginal MP elected in Quebec along with Roméo Saganash. On May 26, 2011, he was appointed spokesman of the official opposition in Canada for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
Member of Parliament for Manicouagan
Manicouagan (electoral district)
Manicouagan is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.The riding was created in 1966 from parts of Charlevoix and Saguenay ridings....
, first elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election. He succeeded Gérard Asselin
Gérard Asselin
Gérard Asselin is a Canadian politician.Asselin is a former Bloc Québécois member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Manicouagan from 2004 to 2011 and Charlevoix from 1993 to 2004. At the end of the 37th Canadian Parliament, Asselin was the Bloc's Forestry critic...
of the Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...
. Genest-Jourdain is a lawyer who comes from the Innu
Innu
The Innu are the indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan , which comprises most of the northeastern portions of the provinces of Quebec and some western portions of Labrador...
reserve
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." The Act also specifies that land reserved for the use and benefit of a band which is not...
village of Uashat-Maliotenam.
Jonathan Genest-Jourdain was born in 1979 in Uashat, an Indian reserve located in the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality, Québec, one of the five MRCs of the Côte-Nord administrative region in Québec. A lawyer by trade, he obtained a law degree from Laval University in 2004 and started a graduate certificate in corporate law. He is a member of the Quebec Bar since 2007. He has devoted himself to the application of professional principles, including social intervention. He entered municipal politics in Sept-Îles in 2009. Through his legal work, Jonathan has been an ardent activist for Aboriginal, Quebec and Canadian heritage issues.
After the elections of May 2, 2011, Jonathan Genest-Jourdain is the MP for the riding of Manicouagan under the New Democratic Party banner. He became the first aboriginal MP elected in Quebec along with Roméo Saganash. On May 26, 2011, he was appointed spokesman of the official opposition in Canada for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.