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| Affiliation | Québec solidaire |
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| Name | Amir Khadir |
| Address |
, Québec , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
June 12, 1961
(62 years)
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Apr 02, 2023 09:02pm |
| Tags |
Iranian - Married - Islam - Straight -
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| Info | Dr. Amir Khadir is a francophone Iranian-Québécois politician, the MNA for Mercier, and currently the male spokesperson for Québec solidaire, a sovereignist and left-wing political party which was created by the merger of the Union des Forces Progressistes and Option Citoyenne, a feminist political movement, in February, 2006.
He was born in Tehran in 1961 and immigrated to Quebec at the age of ten. He was involved in many humanitarian organizations such as Médecins du Monde.
He studied medicine at Université Laval, physics at McGill University, and completed postdoctoral studies at the Université de Montréal.
A medical specialist in infectious microbiology, he practices at the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Le-Gardeur in Lachenaie. Khadir is a member of the Coalition des Médecins pour la Justice Sociale (Coalition of Doctors for Social Justice), which opposes the privatization of the Quebec health system. He has led missions to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Palestinian territories for Médecins du Monde and until 2004 presided over the administrative council of SUCO (Solidarité-Union-
Coopération).
Khadir is married to Nima Machouf. They have three children, named Daria, Yalda and Leyli.
In the federal election of 2000, Khadir ran as a Bloc Québécois candidate in the riding of Outremont. He received 28% of the vote and finished second against Liberal incumbent Martin Cauchon.
Khadir was a member of the Rassemblement pour une alternative politique (RAP) from its inception in 1997 and took part in the founding of the Union des Forces Progressistes in June, 2002 and at one point was the spokesperson for the party.
In the fall of 2005, Khadir signed the Manifesto for a Québec based on solidarity.
Along with fellow QS spokesperson Françoise David, Khadir is currently one of the two most prominent members of Québec solidaire, a progressive left-wing party whose province-wide support never scored more than five percent of the vote.
He ran for a seat in the National Assembly of Quebec in the Montreal-based district of Mercier against Daniel Turp of the Parti Québécois in the 2003, 2007 and 2008 elections.
On his first attempt, he finished third with 18% of the vote under the label Union des forces progressistes. Khadir's second bid was also unsuccessful. He ran under the Québec solidaire label and a placed second with 29% of the vote.
On his third try, Khadir won the seat and became the first Québec solidaire candidate and the first Muslim to become a member of the provincial legislature. He garnered 38% of the vote. During that campaign, Khadir received the endorsement of Robert Perreault, a former PQ cabinet member who represented the district from 1994 to 2000.
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