André Bachand (Progressive Conservative MP)
Canadian politician
André Bachand (born December 8, 1961) is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Richmond—Arthabaska as member of the Progressive Conservatives from 1997 to 2003. In 2018, he was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Richmond as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
When the PC Party was merged with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party in December 2003, Bachand declined to join the CPC and sat as an "Independent Progressive Conservative" until the 2004 election, when he retired from the House of Commons.
Early life and career
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Bachand has been an administrator, and a business executive. He was the mayor of Asbestos, Quebec, from 1986 to 1997, and was the Préfet of the MRC d'Asbestos from 1987 to 1997.
Federal politics
Young Turk
Bachand was first elected as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1997, one of five PC MPs elected that year in Quebec. Bachand was one of a handful of new "Young Turk" PC MPs (along with Scott Brison, John Herron and Peter MacKay) who were considered the future youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days. In 1998, Jean Charest stepped down as federal Progressive Conservative leader to move to Quebec provincial politics, becoming leader of the federalist Quebec Liberal Party (unaffiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada). Bachand was one of many who unsuccessfully tried to convince Charest to remain in federal politics for at least one more election. Former Prime Minister Joe Clark succeeded Charest as leader of the PC Party and Bachand was supportive of Clark's candidacy.
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