Community involvement and a commitment to conservatism are behind Martin Charron’s candidacy. Charron is the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in Argenteuil-La Petite-Nation in the Monday, April 28 federal election.
On Saturday, April 5, Charron held an open house for supporters at his campaign headquarters, located at 550 rue Principale in Lachute.
“I was always involved in the community,” Charron remarked.
That previous involvement included serving as a municipal councillor in Brownsburg-Chatham, and as the organizer of the yearly guignolée before Christmas.
For several years, Charron has also been involved with the Ligue d’action civique, an organization that aims to stop corruption at the municipal level in Québec.
The lifelong Brownsburg-Chatham resident is also an entrepreneur and owns a business involved with spice, seasoning, and food distribution.
Since the beginning of the campaign on March 23, Charron has been visiting voters in communities across the large district. He has been campaigning in Buckingham, Masson-Angers, and Chénéville. During the remaining days of the campaign, Charron plans to focus on Papineau in the central part of the district, and Argenteuil in the eastern part.
Charron said that if elected, he would ensure more of his budget as a Member of Parliament (MP) was used to support community organizations across the district.
The last Conservative to represent Argenteuil in the House of Commons was Lise Bourgault of the former federal Progressive Conservative (PC) Party from 1984 to 1993. Since 2015, the MP has been Liberal Stéphane Lauzon, who is seeking another term this election. Charron is hopeful he can win and flip the riding Conservative.
