Scott McKay

Scott McKay
MNA for L'Assomption
In office 2008–2012
Preceded by	Éric Laporte
Succeeded by	François Legault
MNA for Repentigny
In office 2012–2014
Preceded by	first member
Succeeded by	Lise Lavallée
Personal details
Born	December 2, 1960 Montréal-Est, Quebec
Political party	Green → Parti Québécois

Scott McKay (born December 2, 1960) is a Canadian politician, who served as a former leader of the Green Party of Quebec and a former Montreal council member.^[1] McKay was elected in 2012 to the Quebec National Assembly for the Parti Québécois in the riding of Repentigny, but he was defeated in the 2014 Quebec election.^[2]

Background

McKay was born to a francophone mother and an Irish-anglophone father in the town of Montréal-Est.^[3] He has completed a M.Sc. in Environmental sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal and is currently working in the field of water treatment. He also obtained a bachelor's degree in sciences at the UQAM in 1987.

Municipal politics

In 1986, he was elected to Montreal's City Council as candidate of Jean Doré's Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montréal (RCM) for the district of Honoré-Beaugrand. He was re-elected in 1990, but lost to Ivon Le Duc in 1994 as Pierre Bourque became mayor.

Provincial politics

McKay became leader of the Green Party of Quebec on May 28, 2006.^[4] The party ran candidates in 108 out of Quebec's 125 districts in 2007. None of them was elected. McKay himself finished fourth in the district of Bourget with 2,632 ballots and about 8.09% of the vote. The winner was Diane Lemieux of the Parti Québécois.

McKay lost the party leadership at a convention held in Trois-Rivières on March 29, 2008. Guy Rainville had won a mail-in vote with 268 ballots (54%) against McKay's 225. Nonetheless, McKay was the Green candidate in the by-election that was called as a result of Lemieux's resignation in the district of Bourget.^[5]

Switch to the Parti Québécois

McKay switched parties to run for the Parti Québécois in the 2008 Quebec election, in the riding of L'Assomption.^[6]

On December 8, 2008, he was elected as an MNA for the PQ in the riding of L'Assomption. Due to riding redistribution, McKay ran in the new riding of Repentigny in the 2012 Quebec election and won. Eighteen months later, McKay was defeated by Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Lise Lavallée in the 2014 Quebec election.^[2]

See also

• List of Green party leaders in Canada

Electoral record (partial)

Quebec provincial by-election, May 12, 2008: Bourget
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Maka Kotto	6,575	40.66	−0.60
	Liberal	Lyn Thériault	5,161	31.92	+9.07
	Green	Scott McKay	1,839	11.37	+3.28
	Action démocratique	Denis Mondor	1,520	9.40	−13.61
	Québec solidaire	Gaétan Legault	700	4.33	+0.14
	Parti indépendantiste	Richard Gervais	376	2.33	–
Total valid votes			16,171	99.01	–
Total rejected ballots			162	0.99	–
Turnout			16,333	34.55	−35.34
Electors on the lists			47,276	–	–
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

References

1. CNEWS: Green Party of Quebec rejects merger
2. Nguonly, Olivia (8 April 2014). "Scott McKay, défait… mais serein". Hebdo Rive Nord. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
3. La Presse: Portrait de Scott McKay
4. Scott McKay elected chief of the Green Party of Quebec (Google Translation of Scott McKay élu chef du Parti vert du Québec)
5. Guy Rainville crée la surprise, Radio-Canada, March 29, 2008
6. Archived November 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
• Parti Quebecois biopage (French)