Plaisance, Martin

Quebec, Sherbrooke, New Democratic Party

· Raised in the Quebec City area, other than three years in Benin in West Africa where his father was a teacher

· Studied medicine at Laval University

· Holds diplomas in Internal Medicine and Nephrology

· Engaged in the specialized field of nephrology at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke in 1999

· Earned a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom in 2000

· Launched a program of home haemodialysis in Sherbrooke

· Worked for four months in Australia becoming aware of aboriginals issues

· A member of the Medical Reform Group

· Born in 1971

· Married and the father of two sons.

majority seats = 155