The Canada Brief

Canada · 4 d ago

Desjardins head office, Lévis, Quebec

Jean-Philippe Bourgoin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Former Desjardins head Guy Cormier to run for the Liberals in Laurier–Sainte-Marie

Cormier will try to succeed former minister Steven Guilbeault, who resigned as the Montreal riding's MP. He will face a Bloc Québécois candidate and an NDP candidate.

Dec

7

Monday

Six federal ridings

By-elections will be called Sunday in six federal ridings, with voting on Dec 7.

Candidates in Laurier–Sainte-Marie

  • Liberal: Guy Cormier
  • Bloc Québécois: Zumretay Arkin
  • NDP: Nimâ Machouf

Cormier will face Zumretay Arkin, a human rights activist running for the Bloc Québécois, and Nimâ Machouf for the NDP.

My thinking so far leads me not to go into politics, whatever the party or the level.

— Guy Cormier, in a January interview