Daniel Quinn (politician)

:" For the fictional writer, see City of Glass (Paul Auster book)":" For the U.S. writer, see Daniel Quinn"Daniel Seamus Quinn was the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate at the 2004 federal election in Canada, in the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis, Quebec, which, until the 2004 federal elections, was considered the safest Liberal seat in Canada. He was born in 1983 in Montreal, Quebec. He has lived in Pointe-Claire, Quebec since 1984.

Overview

Born and raised in suburban Montreal, Daniel Quinn attended St. Thomas High School, where he started his political career as the Student Council President. After successfully completing the school's International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, he went on to study Liberal Arts at John Abbott College and afterwards earned a B.A. in Honours History and Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. His undergraduate Honours Thesis was entitled "Tommy Douglas's Views on the Role of the CCF/NDP in Canadian Society." He is currently pursuing a Masters degree from Concordia, specializing in the birth and growth of the neoconservative movement in the United States.

Quinn took an interest in politics at a very young age. In addition to serving on his high school's Student Council for five consecutive years, he has been actively involved in the following political parties: the Liberal Party of Quebec; the Montreal Island Citizens' Union; the Green Party of Quebec; and the New Democratic Party. Though he was a member of a multitude of political parties, by his second year of college he was a committed social democrat.

In early 2003, he founded the Lac-Saint-Louis Riding Association of the New Democratic Party. On January 26, 2004, he was nominated as the riding's NDP candidate, defeating Ryan Young in a very close vote. In the June 28, 2004, federal elections, Quinn came in fourth place, receiving 7.55% of the votes. In the 2000 federal election, the Lac-Saint-Louis candidate had received only 1.2% of the votes. In the 2006 federal election, he came in third place, garnering 5,702 votes (10.7%).

He is an active member of Holy Family Parish, where he coaches a floor hockey team and is a member of the readers' club. He has worked at Camp Caritas, a non-profit sports camp for adolescents, as a cabin leader.

He was nominated in January 2007 to represent the NDP in Lac-Saint-Louis in the next federal election.