1. Guy Caron was born on May 13,1968 and is a Canadian politician, who was elected the mayor of Rimouski, Quebec in the 2021 Quebec municipal elections.
19 Facts About Guy Caron
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Guy Caron was previously a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2019, and served as the federal House leader of the New Democratic Party from 2017 to 2019, substituting for party leader Jagmeet Singh who during this time did not hold a seat.
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Guy Caron was the NDP's critic for Finance and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, but resigned from the NDP's shadow cabinet in February 2017 to pursue leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
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On October 4,2017, Jagmeet Singh, the newly elected NDP leader, appointed Guy Caron to serve as the NDP's parliamentary leader.
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Guy Caron relinquished this position on February 25,2019, upon Singh's election to parliament from the riding of Burnaby South.
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Guy Caron lost his seat in the 2019 Canadian federal election.
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Guy Caron has a master's degree in economics from Universite du Quebec a Montreal in 2001.
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Guy Caron previously worked for the Council of Canadians where he was a media relations officer, then the Campaigner on Canada-US Relations, and then the Healthcare Campaigner.
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Guy Caron has worked for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
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Guy Caron is a former journalist: he worked with radio stations CKLE and CKMN-FM, and with the newspapers Progres-Echo and Rimouskois while studying science at the Cegep de Rimouski.
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Guy Caron is the author of Crossing the Line: A Citizens' Inquiry on Canada-US Relations.
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Guy Caron was appointed chairperson of the NDP's Quebec caucus following the election.
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Guy Caron resigned from the NDP shadow cabinet in February 2017 to stand for the leadership of the New Democratic Party to succeed Tom Mulcair.
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Guy Caron stated that the two major challenges confronting Canadians are income inequality and climate change.
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Guy Caron lost his seat in the 2019 Canadian federal election.
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In November 2020, Guy Caron announced his campaign for Mayor of Rimouski in the following year's municipal election, hoping to succeed retiring Mayor Marc Parent.
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Guy Caron released a tax plan called Making Taxes Work for Canadians as part of his ongoing NDP leadership bid.
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Guy Caron's plan proposes the elimination of the "CEO stock option loophole," a promise made by the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2015 federal election.
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At the time of his 2011 election they lived in Gatineau, Quebec; following the election they purchased a property in Rimouski, within Guy Caron's riding, though stayed in Aylmer while Parliament was in session.