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{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1964)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder | name= Martin Lemay
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| birth_place= [[Amos, Quebec]]
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| party= Parti Québécois
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| office=[[National Assembly of Quebec|MNA]] for [[Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques]]
| term_start=April 10, 2006
| term_end=2012
| predecessor= [[André Boulerice]]
| successor=[[Daniel Breton]]
| portfolio=  Immigration, cultural communities, Citizenship, Metropole
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'''Martin Lemay''' (born March 19, 1964, in [[Amos, Quebec]]) is a politician in [[Quebec]], Canada.  He is the [[Parti Québécois]] (PQ) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for [[Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques]] in the [[National Assembly of Quebec]].

==Background==
He studied [[history]] and [[sociology]] at the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]].  He also received a post graduate certificate in [[public management]] at the [[École nationale d'administration publique]].

==Montreal city politics==
Lemay began his political career in municipal politics being a councilor for the district of [[Sainte-Marie, Quebec|Sainte-Marie]] in the Montreal region from 1994 to 1998.  In 2000, he was president of the [[Ville-Marie, Montreal|Ville-Marie]] borough.  When [[Pierre Bourque (politician)|Pierre Bourque]] tried to be elected MNA for the [[Action démocratique du Québec]] (ADQ), he became leader of Vision Montréal, which was then the Official Opposition party against [[Gérald Tremblay]].

==Member of the legislature==
In April 2006, he was elected in [[Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques]], the former stronghold of [[Claude Charron]] and [[André Boulerice]], in a [[by-election]], defeating the [[Liberal Party of Quebec|Liberal]] candidate [[Nathalie Malépart]], who was the daughter of former MNA [[Jean-Claude Malépart]].

This was the first election in which the [[Québec Solidaire]] party took part. Lemay had received the support of the [[SPQ Libre]] of [[Pierre Dubuc]].

At the time of his assembly nomination, Lemay asked [[Jean Charest]] to legislate on [[climate change]], trying to benefit from the recent resignation of [[Thomas Mulcair]].  He was named spokesperson on Housing, replacing [[Nicole Léger]].

After his [[2007 Quebec general election|2007 re-election]], he was named the PQ critic for Immigration and Cultural Communities.

==See also==
* [[Vision Montreal Crisis, 1997]]

==Electoral record (partial)==
{{2006 Quebec provincial by-elections/Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques}}

==External links==
* {{Quebec MNA biography|lemay-martin-47}}

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