Éric Duhaime

Éric Duhaime
Duhaime in 2022.
Duhaime in 2022
Leader of Conservative Party of Quebec
Incumbent
Assumed office
April 17, 2021
Preceded byAdrien D. Pouliot
Personal details
BornÉric Joseph Duhaime
(1969-04-15) April 15, 1969 (age 56)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PartyQuebec Conservative
Conservative (federal)
Other political
affiliations		ADQ (2003–2012)
CAQ (2012–2020)
Alma materUniversité de Montréal
École nationale d'administration publique
OccupationColumnist, radio host

Éric Joseph Duhaime (French pronunciation: [eʁik dɥɛm]; born April 15, 1969) is a Canadian columnist, radio host, and politician serving as leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec since April 17, 2021.[1][2][3][4] During his radio career, he has been associated with radio poubelle, a style of provocative right-wing radio popular in Quebec City.[5][6][7]

Early life and education

Born on April 15, 1969, in Montreal, Duhaime holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the Université de Montréal and a Master's degree from École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP).[8]

Media career

Columnist career

He writes for the Journal de Montréal and the National Post[9] and was also a blogger. He participated in various blogs such as Les analystes [10] and also ran a blog on the pages of Journal de Québec (called En droite ligne).[11]In 2019, he wrote a column for Urbania.[12]

Between 2012 and 2014, he published four political essays: L'État contre les jeunes : Comment les baby-boomers ont détourné le système (lit. 'The state against the youth: how baby-boomers hacked the system', 2012), Libérez-nous des syndicats (lit. 'Free us from unions', 2013) and La SAQ pousse le bouchon (lit. 'The SAQ goes too far', 2014).[citation needed]

Radio career

He hosted Le retour d'Éric Duhaime on FM93 in Quebec City. He also worked as part of public affairs programs broadcast on Noovo, Télé-Québec, Radio X, and 98,5 FM.[6] During this same period, he was radio host of Duhaime le midi at CKLX-FM.[13][14] From 2015 to 2020, he was the host or co-host of multiple radio show; notably Normandeau-Duhaime and Duhaime le midi.[citation needed]

His radio commentary at Radio X has been described as radio poubelle otherwise known as trash radio.[5][6][7] Duhaime faced criticism from singer Karim Ouellet and hockey player Georges Laraque when he called that "hero" in the black community such as Barack Obama were "zeros".[15] He compared sexual assault to car thefts and that said that rape culture does not exists.[16][17]

Earlier political career

Political activism

In 1995, five friends met in Saint-Eustache Quebec, they were Duhaime, Martin Masse[18], who later became a political advisor to Maxime Bernier and co-founded the People Party of Canada, Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) co-founders Michel Kelly-Gagnon and Pierre Lemieux as well as Pierre Desrochers, a professor of geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga.[19][20] These five friends agreed on three priorities to advance the libertarian movement in Quebec: to revive the MEI, where Duhamie later worked there, create Les amis de la liberté (Friends of Liberty), an association serving as a meeting place and to present conferences and to found a magazine which would be Le Québécois Libre.[19] In 2009, he became a consultant for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, leading him to travel to Morocco and Iraq.[21][22]

Duhaime was an activist for the Parti Québécois and Bloc Québécois in the 1990s, then enrolled in Stockwell Day's team in the early 2000s during the leadership race for the Canadian Alliance party.[23]

In 2010, Duhaime co-founded the Réseau Liberté-Québec along with Joanne Marcotte, Roy Eappen, Gérard Laliberté, Ian Sénéchal and Guillaume Leduc. The RLQ is a movement inspired by the advocating of a revival of conservatism and libertarianism in Quebec.[24] The group held conferences from 2010 to 2013, discussing how to end the Quebec model. Members of the organization played a major role in Duhaime victory during the 2021 Conservative Party of Quebec leadership election, and the ideas expressed during the conference helped shaped the party platform.[19][25]

In 2017,he allegedly helped fellow Rebel Media contributor Jack Posobiec translate the leaked emails from the Emmanuel Macron presidential campaign.[26]

Political involvement

Duhaime spent more than a decade as a political advisor for different leaders in Ottawa and Quebec City. He was an advisor for Stockwell Day during his leadership of the Canadian Alliance from 2001 to 2004, Mario Dumont from 2003 to 2008 when Dumont was leader of the Action démocratique du Québec and Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québécois.[27] He was one of the campaign organizers for Marc Bellemare during his mayoralty in Quebec City with Vision Quebec from 2004 to 2006. He made his first run for office in 2003, when he ran for the ADQ in Deux-Montagnes, in which he placed third.[24] Duhamie took out an op-ed in La Presse supporting Bernier for his run for the Conservative leadership in 2017. He particularly praised Bernier's criticism of the supply management system for dairy farmers.[28]

Leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec

On November 22, 2020, Duhaime announced he would be running in the Conservative Party of Quebec leadership election to succeed Adrien D. Pouliot.[29][30][31] He won the election with just under 96% of the vote.[32]

Duhaime led the Quebec Conservatives in the 2022 Quebec general election, where he boosted the party's popular vote support from 1.46 percent in 2018 to nearly 13 percent. The party, however, won no seats in the National Assembly; Duhaime lost his bid for a seat in Chauveau by placing second.[33]

In an attempt to win a seat in the National Assembly, Duhaime ran as a candidate in the 2025 Arthabaska provincial by-election. He advocated to "release Quebec from the Carbon Stock Exchange".[34] He finished second behind the Parti Québécois' Alex Boissonneault.[35]

Personal life

Duhaime is openly gay, coming out in his 2017 book La fin de l'homosexualité et le dernier gay.[36]

Electoral record

Quebec provincial by-election, August 11, 2025: Arthabaska
Resignation of Eric Lefebvre
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti Québécois Alex Boissonneault 17,327 46.37 +36.36
Conservative Éric Duhaime 13,081 35.01 +10.32
Liberal Chantale Marchand 3,481 9.32 +5.56
Coalition Avenir Québec Keven Brasseur 2,693 7.21 -44.54
Québec solidaire Pascale Fortin 548 1.47 -7.76
Climat Québec Trystan Martel 96 0.26 -0.31
Union Nationale Eric Simard 55 0.15 –
Équipe Autonomiste Louis Chandonnet 31 0.08 –
Independent Denis Gagné 29 0.08 –
Independent Arpad Nagy 24 0.06 –
Total valid votes 37,365 98.95  
Total rejected ballots 398 1.05 -0.51
Turnout 37,763 59.98 -14.12
Eligible voters 62,960 – +1.35
Parti Québécois gain from Coalition Avenir Québec Swing +40.45


2022 Quebec general election: Chauveau
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Sylvain Lévesque 20,292 46.84 -0.22
Conservative Éric Duhaime 13,794 31.84 +23.23
Québec solidaire Jimena Ruiz Aragon 3,816 8.81 -1.54
Parti Québécois Charles-Hubert Riverin 3,307 7.63 -1.57
Liberal Igor Pivovar 1,651 3.81 -18.66
Parti nul Renaud Blais 213 0.49 –
Climat Québec Christine Lepage 201 0.46 –
Équipe Autonomiste Nicolas Bouffard Savoie 44 0.10 –
Total valid votes 43,318 98.59
Total rejected ballots 619 1.41
Turnout 43,937 75.68
Eligible voters 58,059
Source(s)
electionsquebec.qc.ca
Results of the 2021 Conservative Party of Quebec leadership election[32]
Candidate
Votes cast %
Éric Duhaime 9,773 95.99%
Daniel Brisson 408 4.01%
Rejected/Spoiled Ballots 2 0.02%
Total 10,183 100.00


2003 Quebec general election: Deux-Montagnes
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti Québécois Hélène Robert 12,432 39.04 -7.99
Liberal Marc Lauzon 12,099 37.99 +7.02
Action démocratique Éric Duhaime 6,907 21.69 +0.95
UFP Julien Demers 408 1.28 +0.98[a]
Total valid votes 31,846 98.28 –
Total rejected ballots 557 1.72 +0.58
Turnout 32,403 74.37 -2.92
Electors on the lists 43,571 – –
  1. ^ Results taken from Socialist Democracy.

References

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