| Intro | Canadian politician, jurist and lawyer |
| Is |
Jurist Lawyer Politician |
| From | Canada |
| Type |
Law Politics |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 25 June 1970, Greenfield Park, Canada |
| Age: | 50 years |
| Star sign | Cancer |
| Politics | Liberal Party of Canada |
François-Philippe Champagne PC MP (born June 25, 1970) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain in the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election. He is a member of the Liberal Party serving as the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs since November 20, 2019.
Career
Champagne was raised in Shawinigan, Quebec, and studied law at the Université de Montréal and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. After several years working as a senior attorney for Elsag Bailey Process Automation, he joined ABB Group in 1999, eventually rising to group vice president and senior counsel. In 2008 he joined Amec PLC as a strategic development director, and was designated a “young global leader” by the World Economic Forum. In an interview with The Globe and Mail in 2009, Champagne expressed his desire to eventually return to Canada and enter politics, citing fellow Shawinigan resident Jean Chrétien as an inspiration.
Subsequently returning to Canada, he became involved in a variety of business and non-profit ventures. He became the Liberal candidate for Saint-Maurice—Champlain, and was elected to Parliament on October 19, 2015.
Champagne has stated he is trilingual, speaking English, French and Italian.
Electoral record
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Saint-Maurice—Champlain | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | François-Philippe Champagne | 23,104 | 39.55 | -1.97 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Nicole Morin | 19,950 | 34.15 | +14.99 | ||||
| Conservative | Bruno-Pier Courchesne | 9,542 | 16.33 | +0.06 | ||||
| New Democratic | Barthélémy Boisguérin | 3,071 | 5.26 | -15.51 | ||||
| Green | Stéphanie Dufresne | 1,809 | 3.10 | +1.16 | ||||
| People’s | Julie Déziel | 938 | 1.61 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 58,414 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,307 | 2.19 | ||||||
| Turnout | 59,721 | 65.20 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 91,594 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Saint-Maurice—Champlain | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | François-Philippe Champagne | 24,475 | 41.52 | +30.59 | $107,029.87 | |||
| New Democratic | Jean-Yves Tremblay | 12,245 | 20.77 | −20.51 | $29,855.51 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Sacki Carignan Deschamps | 11,295 | 19.16 | −9.31 | $32,567.29 | |||
| Conservative | Jacques Grenier | 9,592 | 16.27 | −0.86 | $49,358.13 | |||
| Green | Martial Toupin | 1,144 | 1.94 | −0.09 | $3,832.69 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Jean-Paul Bédard | 196 | 0.33 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 58,947 | 100.0 | $269,923.91 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,175 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 60,122 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 92,086 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||