Emilie Guimond-Bélanger

Emilie Guimond-Bélanger is an social worker, from Quebec. A member of Québec solidaire, she was leader of the party's , She studied a master's degree in international law at Université du Québec à Montréal.
In 2007, after a trip to India where she encountered poverty, she met Amir Khadir and decided to join Quebec Solidaire. Invested in this party, she was a candidate in the 2008 general election in Beauce-Nord, achieving 1.04% of the vote. In 2008, she was elected head of Québec solidaire's National Women's Commission.
On June 27, 2010, while participating in the 2010 G20 Toronto summit protests as a party representative, she was arrested and detained for 60 hours under conditions that raised a number of public issues. After her release, she spoke of police abuses perpetrated during her detention.
In the Quebec election campaign of 2012, Guimond-Bélanger was candidate for Québec solidaire in Jean-Talon got 6% of the votes..
In 2016 her report for civil rights group Droits Devant on the fines amassed by a homeless man in Quebec reached national news.

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