residence predecessor appointed children birth_place nationality party office profession primeminister birth_date term_start spouse article_title name nominator alma_mater
mille isles , quebec marjory lebreton michel biron david johnston 3 champlain , quebec canadian conservative leader mille isles , quebec of the government in the senate senator for lawyer stephen harper 04 december 1964 august 20 , 2013 august 27 , 2009 brigitte binette claude carignan
 claude carignan stephen harper university of sherbrooke , university of montreal
claude carignan

claude carignan , pc , -lrb- born december 4 , 1964 -rrb- is a canadian lawyer and politician .
he is currently the leader of the government in the senate .
carignan was the mayor of saint-eustache , quebec from 2000 to 2009 .
he ran for the conservatives in the 2008 federal election in rivière-des-mille-Îles , but lost .
on august 27 , 2009 , he was named to the senate of canada as a conservative .
on may 24 , 2011 , carignan was appointed deputy leader of the government in the senate .
he was appointed leader of the government in the senate on august 20 , 2013 but , unlike most of his predecessors , was not appointed to cabinet .
carignan was admitted to the bar of quebec in 1988 and specializes in labour and public law .
he was a law professor at the université du québec à montréal and at the université de montréal .
