Rachel Demers

Rachel Demers was born in Quebec City, grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, worked for 20 years on the North Shore and has lived in Laval for about the last dozen years. Active in the Parti québécois since the age of 19, she was appointed a member of the Commission régionale sur l'avenir du Québec (Regional Commission on the future of Quebec) on the North Shore in 1995. In 1998, she was the chairperson of the Serge Ménard election campaign in Laval-des-Rapides. She is currently the president of the Conseil de la souveraineté du Québec (Council of Quebec Sovereignty), Laval section. Mother of three children, and grandmother to a 22-month-old little girl, she's now, at 52, in her first attempt at running for elected office. In Laval, Mrs. Demers has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Marigot CLSC-CHSLD for four years, two of them as vice-president.

The expansion of Highway 335 (in the extension of Highway 19, Papineau Bridge – north). "It's the biggest piece," she says. "It's an important element of the many things the Parti québécois wants to accomplish." According to the candidate, the Liberals should have implemented the project in recent years. "The expropriations have been done, all that's left to do is the (expansion) work." Matters of interest to families, and the needs of senior citizens are other issues central to Rachel Demers's current election campaign.