Simon-Pierre Diamond
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Simon-Pierre Diamond is a politician in the Province of Quebec, Canada. He currently represents the Marguerite-D'Youville district at the National Assembly of Quebec and is a member of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ).
In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected in the Quebec legislature. [1] He and Parti Québécois (PQ) member André Boisclair are the only two people who broke the record established by PQ member Claude Charron in the 1970 election at age 23[2].
He was elected with 37% of the vote, defeating PQ candidate Sébastien Gagnon (31%) and Liberal incumbent Pierre Moreau (27%).
From 2004 to 2007, Diamond, a law student at Université de Montréal and a resident of Boucherville, served as President of the Youth Commission of the ADQ. He supports same-sex marriage, but believes that only the federal government has jurisdiction over that issue. [3] [4]
His fiancée, Catherine Goyer, ran for the ADQ in the left wing district of Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques in a 2006 by-election, but finished fifth with less than 2% of the vote, behind Québec Solidaire and the Green Party of Quebec.
His father is a supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada.
