predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp profession party birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title term_end name
françoise boivin canadian françoise boivin hawkesbury , ontario gatineau teacher bloc québécois 05 april 1959 2006 gatineau edith gendron richard nadeau
 2011 richard nadeau
richard nadeau

richard nadeau -lrb- born april 5 , 1959 in hawkesbury , ontario -rrb- is a teacher and bloc québécois politician in quebec , canada .
he is the former member of parliament for the riding of gatineau .
nadeau attended the university of ottawa where he received degrees in history , political science and education .
in addition to being a teacher , nadeau has worked as an adviser and director of educational programs , and as a researcher and an archivist .
he has also been a lobbyist for french education and has been involved in community theatre in saskatchewan .
he taught at the gisèle lalonde high school in orleans , near ottawa , where he , amongst other things , supervised and acted as speaker for the student debate club .
in the 2000 federal election , nadeau finished second in gatineau behind mark assad of the liberal party of canada by 13,197 votes .
in the 2004 federal election , he finished second behind françoise boivin of the liberals by 830 votes -- a surprisingly close result , given that this had long been reckoned as one of the more federalist regions of quebec .
he was elected in the 2006 federal election in a rematch against boivin , becoming the first bloc mp elected in the national capital region .
he was also the third bloc mp ever elected in the entire outaouais region , after maurice dumas and mario laframboise .
nadeau 's wife , edith gendron , is the head of a quebec separatist group called `` le quebec , un pays '' .
she was also the parti québécois candidate for the riding of chapleau in gatineau , in the 2007 provincial election .
in the canadian federal election , 2008 nadeau received the smallest percentage of votes for a winning candidate , at just 29.13 % , meaning that less than 3 out of 10 voters chose him as their candidate , despite him winning a plurality of votes and carrying the district for the bloc over boivin , now running for the new democratic party .
nadeau was heavily defeated by boivin in the 2011 election by over 27,000 votes as part of the massive ndp surge across quebec .
he tallied barely half of his vote from 2008 .
