John Gregoire’s Family Name Collection

This is John Gregoire’s collection of people and places with the name Gregoire. The name Gregoire is both a surname (last name, family name) and a given (first name). It is also a French form of the name Gregory. Although Gregoire is not a common name in Norfolk Virginia it is used often in Europe and Canada. Notable people and places with the name Gregoire include politicians, clergy, an automotive pioneer, athletes, lakes and mountains.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Marie Gregoire: Canadian National Assembly

Marie Gregoire (born August 15, 1965) was the Action démocratique du Québec Member National Assembly of Quebec, Canada, for the electoral district of Berthier from 2002 to 2003.

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Marie Gregoire
By Asclepias (Own work)
[CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Gregoire was first elected to the National Assembly in a by-election held on June 17, 2002 with 51% of the vote. Parti Québécois (PQ) star candidate David Levine finished second with 28% of the vote.

In the 2003 election, Gregoire finished second with 32% of the vote, behind PQ candidate Alexandre Bourdeau (35%).

During the 2007 campaign and since then, Gregoire has been a regular panelist on the Réseau de l'Information's news program Le Club des Ex, along with former political opponents Liza Frulla of the Liberal Party and Jean-Pierre Charbonneau of the PQ.^[1]

In April 2007, she signed a manifesto that urges Quebec to choose an electoral system in which a significant number of seats would be determined by proportional representation instead of plurality.^[2]

Footnotes

Le panel des ex-politiciens, Radio-Canada, February and March, 2007
Oui à la proportionnelle, François Desjardins, Le Devoir, April 2, 2007

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Gr%C3%A9goire
Alteration: Gregoire is used without the accent aigu.

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