Nicholas Guindon

Nicholas Guindon PC MP (born January 7, 20XX) is a model parliamentarian who has served as the leader of the Seal Party of Canada since MPSP23. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Sherwood Park–Fort Saskatchewan during MPSP22 as a member of the No Aliens Here Party, and served in government as the Minister for Preventing Appendicitis. Before being elected, Guindon was a leading scholar in Sealology, the study of seals of all types, and a lawyer.
== Personal life and education ==
Guindon was born to a family of professional seal watchers and tour guides in Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, where he grew up learning everything that a person could learn about seals in the Atlantic Ocean. He met his first seal when he was 2 years old while going seal-watching with his grandparents. This only emboldened his passion to become friends with the seals and protect them. He would later move to Cornwall, Ontario, with his parents after they decided to seek a different occupation, much to Guindon's chagrin. 
After graduating high school, he moved to Ottawa for a short period, where he earned his Juris Doctorate at the University of Ottawa. After that, he chose to study abroad, earning a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Sealology from the University of Reykjanuuk in the Queendom of Greenland. He then moved to Sherwood Park, Alberta, to continue practicing law, and taught Sealology at the University of Alberta.
== Political career ==
=== MPSP22 ===
Guindon entered politics in 2021, running as the candidate for the No Aliens Here Party in Sherwood Park–Fort Saskatchewan, where he was duly elected as its Member of Parliament. Despite seals not being part of the NAH Party's platform, Guindon felt it right to enter politics with the party as a stepping stone to ensure that he could promote seals in the future. He was appointed as the Minister for Preventing Appendicitis in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Gian-Andrea Lacombe, earning him the honorific of The Honourable for life.
=== MPSP23 ===
In a bid to finally put seals at the forefront of the political agenda, Guindon, along with many others, founded the Seal Party of Canada in 2022; the party advocates for extended rights to all seals. Under Guindon's leadership, the party formed a coalition with the (Taylor's Party) Party and the Guide Party of Canada in the leadup to the 2022 MPSP general election, known as the GST, the Guiding Seals to Taylor Coalition. Guindon won re-election in his constituency, and as the coalition won the most seats on Election Night, Guindon became the presumptive Prime Minister-designate.
== Electoral history ==
2022 MPSP general election: Sherwood Park–Fort Saskatchewan
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Popular Vote 	% 	±%
 	Seal Party 	Nicholas Guindon 	53,600 	71.07 	–
 	Guide Party of Canada 	Sawyer Thompson 	8,867 	12.42 	–
 	Taylor's Party 	Aidan Swifty 	7,215 	10.10 	–
 	Pirate Party 	Jonah Macdonald 	1,722 	2.41 	–
Total valid votes 	Total valid votes 	Total valid votes 	71,404 	99.42 	–
Total rejected ballots 	Total rejected ballots 	Total rejected ballots 	420 	0.59 	–
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	71,824 	74.59 	–
Registered voters 	Registered voters 	Registered voters 	97,600 	 	
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Category:MPSP23