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Francis Scarpaleggia

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Francis Scarpaleggia
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Lac-Saint-Louis
Assumed office
June 28, 2004
Preceded byClifford Lincoln
Personal details
Born (1957-06-06) June 6, 1957 (age 67)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyLiberal
SpouseJan Ramsay

Francis Scarpaleggia MP (born June 6, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis, which encompasses the west of the island of Montreal, Quebec. Scarpaleggia was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2004 federal election, and was re-elected in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2021. He is chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development and previously served on a variety of House of Commons committees; namely, the committees on Public Safety, Canadian Heritage, Transport, and Government Operations and Estimates. He was also chair of the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, a committee created pursuant to a 2015 Liberal election platform commitment on electoral reform. From 2011 to 2021 he served as the chair of the National Liberal Caucus, an eventful period in Canadian politics that saw the Liberal Party of Canada move from third-party status in the House of Commons (second opposition party) to forming government in one election cycle under the leadership of Justin Trudeau.

Education

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Scarpaleggia attended Loyola High School, a semi-private Jesuit-run high school in western Montreal, and subsequently Marianopolis College and McGill University where he obtained an honours degree in economics. Following graduation from McGill, he studied at Columbia University in New York, obtaining a master's degree in economics. He then obtained an MBA at Montreal's Concordia University.

Career before politics

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Following graduation from business school, he joined the private sector working for Petro-Canada and Comterm, a Quebec-based microcomputer and keyboard-terminal manufacturer and local-area-network software developer. He subsequently entered Montreal's pharmaceutical industry as a corporate financial analyst working for Bristol-Myers Squibb, and transitioned to education, teaching business administration at Montreal's Dawson College.

Political career

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Scarpaleggia's involvement in politics began as a volunteer in the riding of Mount Royal during the 1981 Quebec election, working for the Liberal incumbent John Ciaccia, who was re-elected to the provincial legislature. Following the election, which saw the separatist Parti Québécois elected for a second term, he remained active as a grassroots provincial Liberal organizer, notably serving as the youngest riding president (Mount Royal provincial riding association) in the Quebec Liberal Party at the time. In 1984, he became involved in the Liberal Party of Canada in the federal riding of Mount Royal.

Prior to being elected, he worked from 1994 to 2004 as legislative assistant to Clifford Lincoln, a former environment minister in the Quebec government who then served, after entering federal politics, as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment and then as chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.

Scarpaleggia was first elected to Parliament in the 2004 Canadian federal election following a competitive local nomination contest.

Since first being elected, he has focused on issues of freshwater protection, introducing various water bills and motions in the House of Commons, including a bill to ban bulk-water exports. As a member of the House of Commons environment committee, he has initiated water-focused studies such a study on the Alberta oilsands industry's impacts on the Athabasca River watershed.

He holds a reputation as a dedicated constituency representative, close to his electors and focused on their political concerns and priorities.[citation needed]

Personal life

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Scarpaleggia was born in 1957, the son of Maurice Scarpaleggia, a businessman turned college administrator, and Lois Doucet. His paternal grandfather, Frank Scarpaleggia, was a Montreal barber and barbershop owner. His maternal grandfather, Louis Doucet, worked in building services at Montreal's historic Sun Life Building. His paternal grandparents immigrated from Italy and his maternal grandmother immigrated from Ireland. His maternal grandfather was French-Canadian born in Quebec.

He was raised in Laval, Quebec, and later in the Town of Mount Royal, a Montreal-island suburb. He has been married to Jan Ramsay since 1998. They have two grown daughters.

Electoral record

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2021 Canadian federal election: Lac-Saint-Louis
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia 32,477 56.3 -1.9 $82,540.53
Conservative Ann Francis 10,911 18.9 +3.6 $6,039.07
New Democratic Jonathan Gray 7,679 13.3 +1.1 $2,178.95
Bloc Québécois Rémi Lebeuf 3,078 5.3 ±0.0 $2,242.01
Green Milan Kona-Mancini 1,868 3.2 -3.8 $0.00
People's Afia Lassy 1,712 3.0 +1.6 $4,594.81
Total valid votes/expense limit 57,725 99.1 $113,303.53
Total rejected ballots 524 0.9
Turnout 58,249 69.7
Registered voters 83,616
Liberal hold Swing -2.8
Source: Elections Canada[1]
2019 Canadian federal election: Lac-Saint-Louis
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia 34,622 58.16 -5.97 $79,198.20
Conservative Ann Francis 9,083 15.26 -2.16 $47,678.03
New Democratic Dana Chevalier 7,263 12.20 -0.63 $1,823.39
Green Milan Kona-Mancini 4,176 7.02 +4.11 $11,504.53
Bloc Québécois Julie Benoît 3,169 5.32 +2.63 $1,149.75
People's Gary Charles 805 1.35 $10,581.28
Animal Protection Victoria de Martigny 379 0.64 none listed
Canadian Nationalist Ralston Coelho 28 0.05 $0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit 59,525 99.26   TBD
Total rejected ballots 445 0.74 +0.23
Turnout 59,970 71.33 -1.61
Eligible voters 84,074
Liberal hold Swing -1.90
Source: Elections Canada[2]
2015 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia 39,965 64.14 +30.03
Conservative Eric Girard 10,857 17.42 -11.02
New Democratic Ryan Young 7,997 12.83 -17.23
Green Bradford Dean 1,812 2.91 -1.36
Bloc Québécois Gabriel Bernier 1,681 2.7 -0.42
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]
2011 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia 18,457 34.11 -12.27
New Democratic Alain Ackad 16,253 30.04 +14.28
Conservative Larry Smith 15,394 28.45 +4.94
Green Bruno Tremblay 2,315 4.28 -4.30
Bloc Québécois Éric Taillefer 1,689 3.12 -2.62
Total valid votes/Expense limit 54,108 100.00
Rejected ballots 287 0.53 -0.01
Turnout 54,395 66.13 +2.10
Liberal hold Swing -13.28
2008 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia 23,842 46.38 -1.8 $71,566
Conservative Andrea Paine 12,085 23.51 -3.2 $54,850
New Democratic Daniel Quinn 8,105 15.76 +5.1
Green Peter Graham 4,415 8.58 +1.8 $7,679
Bloc Québécois Maxime Clément 2,953 5.74 -2.0 $6,931
Total valid votes/Expense limit 51,400 100.00
Rejected ballots 277 0.54
Turnout 51,677 64.03
Liberal hold Swing -2.5
2006 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia 25,588 48.2 -15.7 $46,751
Conservative Andrea Paine 14,164 26.7 +14.6 $74,919
New Democratic Daniel Quinn 5,702 10.7 +5.6 $8,129
Bloc Québécois Anne-Marie Guertin 4,064 7.7 -2.5 $9,298
Green Peter Graham 3,605 6.8 +1.6 $1,340
Total valid votes/Expense limit 53,123 100.0 $80,616
Liberal hold Swing -215.15
2004 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia 32,122 63.9 -10.3 $41,498
Conservative Jeff Howard 6,082 12.1 -2.6 $15,262
Bloc Québécois Maxime Côté 5,106 10.2 +3.5 $7,084
New Democratic Daniel Quinn 3,789 7.5 +5.0 $6,036
Green Peter Graham 2,584 5.1 $1,808
Marijuana Patrick Cardinal 578 1.1 -0.6
Total valid votes/Expense limit 50,261 100.0 $79,772
Liberal hold Swing -6.45

References

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  1. ^ "Confirmed candidates — Lac-Saint-Louis". Elections Canada. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  3. ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Lac-Saint-Louis, 30 September 2015
  4. ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived August 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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