The Parti vert du Québec/Green Party of Quebec (PVQ) ran 108 candidates in the 2007 Quebec provincial election, none of whom were elected.
Vanessa Thibodeau appears to have run a low-profile campaign in the 2007 election. The Sherbrooke Record newspaper noted that the Green Party's election website had no information about her or her plans for the division; the paper further speculated that her candidacy was only to ensure the party would appear on the ballot.[1] She received votes 1,917 votes (5.39%), finishing fourth against Liberal Party incumbent Pierre Paradis.[2]
Lucien Rodrigue is a medical doctor who also holds a bachelor's degree in agro-economy.[3] At the time of the 2007 election, he had worked for almost twenty years at the Saint-François D’Assise Hospital in Quebec City. He focused his campaign on health issues, on one occasion taking part in a prominent Green Party press conference on the subject.[4] He also called for the construction of a soccer field in the Quebec City area, arguing that this would increase physical wellness among youth.[5] He received 1,159 votes (3.33%), finishing fifth against Action démocratique du Québec candidate Jean-François Gosselin.
François Desmarais was born in Sorel-Tracy and was twenty-four years old at the time of the 2007 election. Having previously earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a certificate in German studies from the University of Montreal, he was working toward a master's degree in political science at Laval University in 2007, focusing on defence policies in Germany since the end of World War II. He helped establish a Richelieu branch of the PVQ in 2005 and became secretary of the party's provincial executive in 2006.[6] During the 2007 campaign, he criticized Quebec's longstanding freeze in university tuition.[7] Desmarais received 986 votes (3.29%), finishing fourth against Parti Québécois incumbent Sylvain Simard.
Louis Lacroix has been a candidate of both the Green Party of Quebec and the Green Party of Canada. He was 26 years old during the 2006 federal election and identified as an agricultural technician.[8] He has called for the legalization and controlled sale of cannabis, opposing simple decriminalization on the grounds that it will benefit criminal elements.[9]
Election | Division | Party | Votes | % | Place | Winner |
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2004 federal | Drummond | Green | 921 | 2.19 | 4/5 | Pauline Picard, Bloc Québécois |
2006 federal | Bas-Richelieu-Nicolet-Bécancour | Green | 1,595 | 3.22 | 5/5 | Louis Plamondon, Bloc Québécois |
2007 provincial | Trois-Rivières | Green | 739 | 2.68 | 5/6 | Sébastien Proulx, Action démocratique du Québec |