Ruth Ellen Brosseau eyes return to Parliament, will run for NDP in Quebec riding

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 06, 2025 2:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Ruth Ellen Brosseau is attempting a governmental comeback successful Quebec, 14 years aft she won a astonishment triumph arsenic a national New Democrat and became the look of the Orange Wave that made the NDP the Official Opposition.

On Sunday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said successful a societal media station that Brosseau was declaring her candidacy successful Berthier-Maskinongé, the riding she antecedently held that stretches on the St. Lawrence River betwixt the suburbs of Montreal and Trois-Rivières.

Brosseau archetypal garnered nationalist attraction successful 2011 erstwhile she flew to Las Vegas during the predetermination run to observe her 27th birthday.

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She had ne'er acceptable ft successful her riding earlier becoming its MP — one of 59 NDP candidates to triumph a spot successful Quebec nether person Jack Layton that year, up from 1 previously.

Brosseau went connected to go the party's agriculture professional and triumph again successful 2015 earlier losing to then-president of the Bloc Québécois, Yves Perron, successful 2019 and again successful 2021, that clip by less than 1,000 votes.

The NDP is struggling successful the polls successful the look of a Liberal resurgence amid threats to Canada's system and sovereignty launched by U.S. President Donald Trump.