Sébastien Lemire
- Political Experience
- Elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 2019 for Abitibi—Témiscamingue. Critic of industry, regional high-speed internet and entrepreneurship in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet (2021). Vice chair of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs and the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts (2025).
- Notable
- Admitted to taking a photo of a naked Will Amos on a Zoom call and offered an apology in the House of Commons to that MP (2021).
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Business & Financial Interests
Before his election to Parliament in 2019, Sébastien Lemire had a career in the cultural sector. He was reportedly the general manager of the Conseil de la culture de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue, an organization that supports arts and culture in the region.
Public Controversies
In April 2021, Sébastien Lemire became the subject of a public controversy after he admitted to taking a screenshot of a fellow Member of Parliament, William Amos, who had accidentally appeared nude during a virtual session of the House of Commons. The image was subsequently leaked to the media. Lemire publicly apologized in the House of Commons for his actions, stating that he took the photo but did not know how it was shared publicly. Following his admission, the Bloc Québécois temporarily suspended him from his committee duties. The matter was also investigated by the House of Commons' governing body.
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Sébastien Lemire won with 24,774 votes (49.4%)
Total votes cast: 50,115
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Mr. Speaker, cost overruns are a Liberal hallmark. First there was Cúram, which is now costing taxpayers $7 billion following yet another cost overrun according the economic update. Everyone has heard about ArriveCAN and Phoenix, and now there is PrescribeIT, a software designed by the federal government to meddle in health care and prescribe medication. It cost $300 million, almost eight times
Mr. Speaker, Alto has confirmed that the section of high-speed rail between Montreal and Ottawa will go through 1,700 properties. With no input from the owners, 500 of our best pieces of farmland will be cut in half. When the Alto people tell us that they are consulting towns and farmers, it is all for show, because they already know exactly where they want to go and what land they want to
Mr. Speaker, perhaps this is nothing more than a tall tale that started in Rouyn, but in the early part of the last century, two Anishinabe hunters, the Mackimoot brothers, returned to their community with a glittering stone from Conia Asini. Then, a prospector from Nova Scotia, Edmund Horne, took his canoe to the township of Rouyn. Once there, potentially as a result of contact with the
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are abusing their majority to cover up the Cúram software scandal. After spending months denying that any problem related to OAS or any cost overruns even existed, the government has added $451 million for Cúram and the Canada Revenue Agency to its economic update. That means another cost overrun where none was supposed to exist, to fix problems where no problems were
Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Cambridge for her concern because she began and ended her speech by talking about those who served, those who came away with trauma or physical effects, those who need help. We heard from some of these individuals in committee. I would like my colleague to tell me whether she thinks that there will be political repercussions for the government because the
Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes for his concern, which we can feel, and for his commitment to this issue. These are deeply troubling issues that are difficult to address, but I think that he is doing so with great dignity. The fact that the bill is now at third reading is also a testament to his strong leadership. I trusted the medical team but knew something wasn't
Mr. Speaker, that is why the program has gone over budget five times already. The Liberals have had a majority in committee for seven days now. Already, they have killed an investigation into the Cúram cost overruns, which now total $7 billion. They decided that the investigation into Driver Inc. should be in camera, as though they care more about protecting dangerous truckers than the lives of
Mr. Speaker, I have been following the bill's progress. There is something shocking about how Liberal arrogance is what is driving the decision to revisit committee discussions when there were amendments that responded to the justice's report and acknowledged her work. In particular, there was a Bloc Québécois amendment that addressed timely trials. However, the new majority got this amendment