Lionel Carmant
Lionel Carmant | |
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 Carmant in 2023 | |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Taillon | |
| Assumed office October 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Diane Lamarre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1965 (age 59–60) |
| Party | Independent (since 2025) Coalition Avenir Québec (until 2025) |
| Residence(s) | Longueuil, Quebec, Canada |
| Profession | Physician |
Lionel Carmant MNA is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election.[1] He represents the electoral district of Taillon and was elected as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.[2]
As Associate Minister for Health in October 2018, Carmant announced that the government would tighten the rules on cannabis consumption, including increasing the legal age to consume to 21 from 18.[3]
On 30 October 2025, Carmant resigned from his cabinet post and quit the party to sit as an independent MNA.[4] His daughter have published an editorial in Le Devoir that criticized the government's overhaul of health legislation (Bill 2), which linked physicians' compensation to performance targets and prohibited physicians from using labour pressure tactics that could interfere with access to care. [5]
Electoral record
[edit]| 2022 Quebec general election: Taillon | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Lionel Carmant | 14,635 | 41.5 | +7.7 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Andrée-Anne Bouvette-Turcot | 7,160 | 20.3 | -7.8 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Blanchard | 6,663 | 18.9 | +1.2 | ||||
| Liberal | Omar Cissé | 4,096 | 11.6 | -5.1 | ||||
| Conservative | Pierre-Marc Boyer | 2,280 | 6.5 | +5.9 | ||||
| Climat Québec | Frédéric Ouellet | 336 | 1.0 | – | ||||
| L'Union fait la force | Pierre Savignac | 86 | 0.2 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | – | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | – | |||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Electors on the lists | – | – | ||||||
| 2018 Quebec general election: Taillon | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Lionel Carmant | 12,186 | 33.76 | +9.54 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Diane Lamarre | 10,138 | 28.08 | -5.72 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Manon Blanchard | 6,382 | 17.68 | +6.57 | ||||
| Liberal | Mohammed Barhone | 6,042 | 16.74 | -13.24 | ||||
| Green | Mel-Lyna Cadieux Walker | 766 | 2.12 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jonathan Leduc | 349 | 0.97 | |||||
| Conservative | Gerardin Verty | 235 | 0.65 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 36,098 | 98.38 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 595 | 1.62 | ||||||
| Turnout | 36,693 | 69.12 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 53,083 | |||||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois | Swing | +7.63 | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Ian Lafrenière, Lionel Carmant, Gaétan Barrette, Nicole Ménard et Catherine Fournier élus". Le Courrier du Sud, October 2, 2018.
- ^ "Lionel Carmant - National Assembly of Québec". www.assnat.qc.ca. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ "CAQ wants to hike legal age for cannabis to 21 by March, minister says". Montreal Gazette, October 24, 2018.
- ^ "Longtime Quebec minister Lionel Carmant steps down". CBC News, October 30, 2025.
- ^ Drimonis, Toula. "Quebec's New Health Care Law Sparks Province-Wide Clash with Doctors". The Walrus. Retrieved November 21, 2025.
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