constituency predecessor successor profession party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name otherparty
haute-gaspésie -- la mitis -- matane -- matapédia '' position creation '' jean-yves roy andré bellavance louis plamondon professor strength in democracy leader parliament leader of the bloc québécois in the house of of commons -lrb- interim -rrb- strength in democracy member of the canadian 12 september 1973 october 26 , 2014 21 , 2014 may 30 , 2011 february jean-françois fortin -lrb- politician -rrb-
 august 12 , 2014 jean-françois fortin independent -lrb- 2014 -rrb- bloc québécois -lrb- 2011-2014 -rrb-
jean-françois fortin -lrb- politician -rrb-

jean-françois fortin -lrb- born september 12 , 1973 -rrb- is a canadian politician .
he was elected to represent the riding of haute-gaspésie -- la mitis -- matane -- matapédia in the 2011 federal election as a member of the bloc québécois , and was chosen interim parliamentary leader of the bloc on february 26 , 2014 .
on august 12 , 2014 , fortin quit the party to sit as an independent , saying that the bloc québécois he had joined no longer exists and that new party leader mario beaulieu had destroyed its credibility .
on october 21 , 2014 , fortin , along with jean-françois larose , the ndp mp for repentigny , announced that they were forming strength in democracy , a new quebec-centred political party dedicated to representing the province 's regions .
