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Canadian politician
Gertrude Bourdon (2010).

Gertrude Bourdon (ca 1955) is a Canadian health professional and politician.

Bourdon was educated at the Polyvalente de Saint-Prosper and the Cégep Limoilou. She went on to study nursing at the Université Laval and public administration at the École nationale d'administration publique. In 2009, she was named director general for the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ). In 2012, she was responsible for the union of the Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec with the CHUQ. She then became president/director-general of the amalgamated network of hospitals. She resigned her position in August 2018 to run for political office. Bourdon was recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 most influential women by the Women's Executive Network in 2014. In 2016, she was named to the Académie des Grands Québécois [fr] by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Québec [fr]. She was awarded the Prix Rachel-Bureau by the Ordre régional des infirmières et infirmiers de Québec. In 2018, she was named an Officer in the Order of Canada.

Following her resignation, Bourdon announced that she would run as a Quebec Liberal Party candidate in the riding of Jean-Lesage in the 2018 Quebec general election. She had already refused an offer to run as a candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec. It was announced that she would become Minister of Health if the Liberals formed the next government in Quebec. On 1 October 2018, Bourdon lost her election (5,305 votes) to Sol Zanetti (QS 10,304) where she came in third place behind Christiane Gamache (CAQ- 9,635)

Electoral records

Quebec provincial by-election, December 2, 2019
On the resignation of Sébastien Proulx
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Joëlle Boutin 9,950 43.38 +14.81
Liberal Gertrude Bourdon 5,742 25.03 -7.54
Québec solidaire Olivier Bolduc 3,888 16.95 -2.22
Parti Québécois Sylvain Barrette 2,137 9.32 -5.14
Green Émilie Coulombe 640 2.79 +0.99
Conservative Éric Barnabé 233 1.02 -0.81
Independent Ali Dahan 206 0.90 +0.20
Citoyens au pouvoir Stéphane Blais 85 0.37 -
Indépendence du Québec Michel Blondin 32 0.14 -
Équipe Autonomiste Stéphane Pouleur 23 0.10 -0.48
Total valid votes 22,936 99.53
Total rejected ballots 109 0.47 -0.71
Turnout 23,045 49.18 -25.98
Electors on the lists 46,857 –
Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Liberal Swing +11.18
2018 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Québec solidaire Sol Zanetti 10,304 34.68 +20.58
Coalition Avenir Québec Christiane Gamache 9,635 32.43 +8.65
Liberal Gertrude Bourdon 5,305 17.86 -19.41
Parti Québécois Claire Vignola 2,764 9.30 -13.10
Conservative Anne Deblois 520 1.75 +0.96
New Democratic Raymond Côté 399 1.34 New
Green Alex Paradis-Bellefeuille 342 1.15 New
Parti nul Charles Verreault-Lemieux 192 0.65 -0.58
Citoyens au pouvoir Marie-Pierre Deschênes 153 0.51 New
Équipe Autonomiste Nicolas Bouffard-Savoie 52 0.18 New
Marxist–Leninist Claude Moreau 44 0.15 +0.01
Total valid votes 29,710 100.0  
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
Québec solidaire gain from Liberal Swing –

References

  1. "Gertrude Bourdon, la femme forte du réseau de la santé". Le Soleil (in French). November 26, 2016.
  2. ^ "Gertrude Bourdon" (in French). Centre Jacques Cartier. Archived from the original on 2018-09-07. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  3. "Départ de Mme Gertrude Bourdon" (in French). CHU de Québec-Université Laval. August 23, 2018.
  4. "Order of Canada Appointments". Governor General of Canada. June 29, 2018.
  5. "Gertrude Bourdon spurns CAQ to become Quebec Liberal Party candidate". Montreal Gazette. August 24, 2018.
  6. "Gertrude Bourdon : avis de recherche". Journal de Montréal (in French). August 28, 2018.
  7. Percentage change calculated from combined result of Quebec solidaire and Option nationale at the 2014 election.
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