1. Pierre Lemieux was born on April 9,1963 and is a politician in Ontario, Canada.
22 Facts About Pierre Lemieux
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Pierre Lemieux served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell from 2006 to 2015, first elected in Canada's 39th general election and defeated in the 42nd.
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Pierre Lemieux was a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2017.
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Pierre Lemieux has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and a Master's of Science from the Royal Military College of Canada.
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Pierre Lemieux then worked for a number of years in the Ottawa high tech sector, most notably for JDS Uniphase.
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Pierre Lemieux then started his own company, offering project management and consulting services to government departments and charitable organizations.
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In-line with many other Conservative Party leadership contenders, Pierre Lemieux has stated that he strongly supports Israel and its right to self-defence.
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Pierre Lemieux has been critical of other conservative politicians in Canada that he believes are helping make the country more liberal through their support of socially liberal legislative initiatives such as private member's Bill C-309, which seeks to establish a gender awareness week.
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Pierre Lemieux has stated that he believes such moves make these politicians "liberal-light" rather than conservative and has called on social conservatives to "not be taken for granted" by more liberal elements of federal and provincial conservative parties.
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Pierre Lemieux's policies have been supported by the anti-abortion advocacy group Campaign Life Coalition as well as University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson.
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Pierre Lemieux has been a proponent of protecting medical conscience rights particularly during considerations of physician assisted suicide.
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Pierre Lemieux voted against Bill C-279, which would have allowed transgender individuals to use washrooms based on their gender identity.
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Pierre Lemieux has been a vocal critic of restrictions on freedom of speech and expression.
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Pierre Lemieux opposes federal legislation that proposes to add "gender expression" and "gender identify" as defining factors for discrimination in the Criminal Code and Canadian Human Rights Act on the grounds that it negatively impacts free speech.
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Pierre Lemieux has proposed to empower Parliament to review all speech laws to ensure they properly balance freedom of speech and reasonable limits.
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Pierre Lemieux has voiced strong opposition to M-103, a Parliamentary Motion of Liberal Member of Parliament Iqra Khalid, which condemns religious discrimination and makes particular note of Islamophobia in its preposition.
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Pierre Lemieux was first elected in the 2006 Canadian federal election that brought Stephen Harper's Conservatives into Government.
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Pierre Lemieux improved his election results with larger margins of victory in 2008 and 2011.
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In 2015, Pierre Lemieux was defeated by Liberal Francis Drouin by over 10,000 votes, in an election that replaced Stephen Harper's Conservative government with Justin Trudeau's Liberals.
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Pierre Lemieux ran again in the 2019 Canadian federal election but was defeated, again by Francis Drouin, though by a smaller vote margin than in 2015.
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Pierre Lemieux attempted to run again in the 2021 Canadian Federal Election.
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However, citing policy that a candidate who loses twice is ineligible to run again, Pierre Lemieux candidacy was blocked by the Conservative party.