Eric Girard is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election.[1] He represents the electoral district of Groulx as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and has served as the Minister of Finance since 2018.
Eric Girard | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Finance | |
| Assumed office October 18, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Leitão |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Groulx | |
| Assumed office October 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Claude Surprenant |
| Minister responsible for Relations with English-Speaking Quebecers | |
| Assumed office October 20, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | François Legault |
| Minister of Economy and Innovation | |
| In office June 2, 2021 – September 1, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre Fitzgibbon |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Fitzgibbon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 9, 1966 Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Coalition Avenir Québec (provincial) Conservative (federal) |
| Occupation | Banker |
He worked as a senior manager with the National Bank of Canada for over 20 years.[2]
Girard was recruited as a star candidate to run for the Conservative Party of Canada in the Montreal riding of Lac-Saint-Louis for the 2015 federal election.[2] He finished a distant second to Liberal incumbent Francis Scarpaleggia.
In 2018, he was elected as the Coalition Avenir Québec MNA in the suburban Montreal riding of Groulx.
Electoral record
Federal
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Francis Scarpaleggia | 39,965 | 64.14 | +30.03 | $119,096.00 | |||
| Conservative | Eric Girard | 10,857 | 17.42 | -11.02 | $74,550.48 | |||
| New Democratic | Ryan Young | 7,997 | 12.83 | -17.23 | $30,673.16 | |||
| Green | Bradford Dean | 1,812 | 2.91 | -1.36 | – | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Gabriel Bernier | 1,681 | 2.7 | -0.42 | $4,317.92 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 62,312 | 100.0 | $224,522.81 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 321 | 0.51 | -0.02 | |||||
| Turnout | 62,633 | 73.06 | +6.93 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 85,727 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +23.63 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[3][4] | ||||||||
Provincial
| 2022 Quebec general election: Groulx | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Eric Girard | 17,431 | 47.75% | +7.14% | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Marie-Noëlle Aubertin | 5,919 | 16.21% | -1.02% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jeanne Craig-Larouche | 5,588 | 15.31% | -0.49% | ||||
| Liberal | Audrey Medaino-Tardif | 4,024 | 11.02% | -9.24% | ||||
| Conservative | Valerie Messore | 3,177 | 8.70% | +7.69% | ||||
| Green | Victoria Shahsavar-Arshad | 368 | 1.01% | -1.20% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 36,507 | – | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | – | |||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Electors on the lists | – | – | ||||||
| 2018 Quebec general election: Groulx | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Eric Girard | 14,771 | 40.61 | +9.76 | ||||
| Liberal | Sabrina Chartrand | 7,369 | 20.26 | -9.98 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Fabien Torres | 6,268 | 17.23 | +10.44 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jean-Philippe Meloche | 5,745 | 15.8 | -14.2 | ||||
| Independent | Claude Surprenant | 812 | 2.23 | |||||
| Green | Robin Dick | 802 | 2.21 | |||||
| Conservative | Vincent Aubé | 368 | 1.01 | |||||
| Citoyens au pouvoir | Chantal Lavoie | 235 | 0.65 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 36,370 | 98.37 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 604 | 1.63 | ||||||
| Turnout | 36,974 | 70.25 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 52,633 | |||||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Swing | +9.87 | ||||||