Claude Bachand
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- Claude BachandClaude Bachand (MNA)Claude Bachand is also the name of a Member of Parliament in Ottawa.Claude Bachand, B.Sc. is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Arthabaska in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election...
is also the name of a member of the National Assembly of Quebec.
Claude Bachand (born January 3, 1951 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
) is a Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
politician, Bachand was a Bloc Québécois
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...
member of the Canadian House of Commons
Canadian House of Commons
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, representing the riding of Saint-Jean
Saint-Jean (electoral district)
Saint-Jean is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.-Geography:The riding extends along the Richelieu River southeast of Montreal, in the Quebec region of Montérégie...
from 1993 till 2011. Before that Bachand was an educator. Bachand was the National Defence critic for the Bloc.