Rachel Bendayan
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| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade | |
| In office December 12, 2019 – August 15, 2021 | |
| Minister | Mary Ng |
| Preceded by | Omar Alghabra (International Trade) Richard Hébert (Small Business and Export Promotion) |
| Member of Parliament for Outremont | |
| Assumed office February 25, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Tom Mulcair |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1980-05-10) May 10, 1980 (age 44) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence | Outremont, Quebec[1] |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
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Rachel Bendayan MP (born May 10, 1980) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on February 25, 2019, following the resignation of former New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair.[2] She was re-elected in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. She represents the electoral district of Outremont as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada,[2] In December 2019, she was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to serve as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, Mary Ng.
She previously ran as the Liberal candidate for Outremont in the 2015 Canadian federal election, coming in second and increasing the Liberal Party's vote share by a significant margin. Following the 2015 election, Bendayan served as Chief of Staff to Bardish Chagger, Minister of Small Business and Tourism.[3]
Bendayan was born and raised in a Moroccan-Jewish family.[4] Bendayan studied law at McGill University and obtained her degree in 2007, specializing in commercial litigation and international arbitration.[5] After graduating, Bendayan was employed by the Norton Rose Fulbright law firm[3] and also teaches at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal.
A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, she was a candidate for the first time in Outremont in the 2015 federal election, against Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the official opposition. She finished second with 33.4% of the vote. After the elections, she then became chief of staff to Bardish Chagger, Minister of Small Business and Tourism.
Following Thomas Mulcair's departure from political life in June 2018, Bendayan announced her intention to once again be a candidate for the Liberal Party in the next election. She was nominated as a candidate against the teacher and activist Kim Manning in December 2018, after a vote by members of the constituency.[2] The elections were finally called to take place on February 25, When she became elected after winning with 40.4% of votes, 2,161 votes more than her nearest opponent, the NDP's Julia Sánchez with 26.1%.[6]
Bendayan was re-elected in the 2019 federal election, obtaining 46.2% of the votes and beating her closest opponent by 10,829 votes.[7] She was then appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, Mary Ng, by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Bendayan was elected for a third time in the 2021 federal election with 45.4% of the votes.
Along with other Jewish Liberal Party candidates, Bendayan has been a victim of anti-Semitic attacks during the campaign for the 2021 Canadian federal elections, with swastikas drawn on her campaign posters.[8][9]
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Rachel Bendayan | 16,714 | 45.4 | -0.8 | $74,361.58 | |||
| New Democratic | Ève Péclet | 9,579 | 26.0 | +5.9 | $25,871.29 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Célia Grimard | 5,535 | 15.0 | +1.1 | $10,443.22 | |||
| Conservative | Jasmine Louras | 2,882 | 7.8 | +1.3 | none listed | |||
| Green | Grace Tarabey | 1,198 | 3.3 | -8.8 | $1,719.40 | |||
| People's | Yehuda Pinto | 819 | 2.2 | +1.3 | 1,871.20 | |||
| Independent | Angela-Angie Joshi | 93 | 0.3 | N/A | $3,516.54 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 36,820 | 98.8 | – | $104,612.20 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 456 | 1.2 | ||||||
| Turnout | 37,276 | 57.2 | -5.0 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 65,143 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -3.4 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Rachel Bendayan | 19,148 | 46.19 | +5.76 | $47,498.81 | |||
| New Democratic | Andrea Clarke | 8,319 | 20.07 | -7.45 | none listed | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Célia Grimard | 5,741 | 13.85 | +2.63 | $9,862.60 | |||
| Green | Daniel Green | 5,018 | 12.1 | -0.83 | none listed | |||
| Conservative | Jasmine Louras | 2,707 | 6.53 | +0.39 | $4,912.03 | |||
| People's | Sabin Levesque | 369 | 0.89 | -0.65 | none listed | |||
| Rhinoceros | Mark John Hiemstra | 155 | 0.37 | none listed | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 41,457 | 100.0 | $102,446.50 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 455 | |||||||
| Turnout | 41,912 | 62.2 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 67,842 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +6.61 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[11][12] | ||||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, February 25, 2019: Outremont Resignation of Tom Mulcair | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Rachel Bendayan | 6,086 | 40.4 |  6.9
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| New Democratic | Julia Sánchez | 3,925 | 26.1 |  18 | ||||
| Green | Daniel Green | 1,889 | 12.5 | 8.9
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| Bloc Québécois | Michel Duchesne | 1,683 | 11.2 | 2.8
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| Conservative | Jasmine Louras | 1,098 | 7.3 | 2.2
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| People's | James Seale | 322 | 2.1 | New | ||||
| Independent | William Barrett | 52 | 0.3 | New | ||||
| Total valid votes | 15,053 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 135 | – | ||||||
| Turnout | 15,188 | 21.6 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 70,414 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | 25 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[13] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Outremont | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Tom Mulcair | 19,242 | 44.11 | −11.57 | $101,332.88 | |||
| Liberal | Rachel Bendayan | 14,597 | 33.46 | +11.84 | $101,506.39 | |||
| Conservative | Rodolphe Husny | 4,159 | 9.53 | +1.55 | $7,828.89 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Roger Galland Barou | 3,668 | 8.41 | −3.20 | $6,959.30 | |||
| Green | Amara Diallo | 1,575 | 3.61 | +1.37 | – | |||
| Libertarian | Francis Pouliot | 216 | 0.50 | – | – | |||
| Communist | Adrien Welsh | 162 | 0.37 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 43,619 | 100.00 | – | $204,392.07 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 426 | 0.97 | – | – | ||||
| Turnout | 44,045 | 62.42 | – | – | ||||
| Eligible voters | 70,559 | – | – | – | ||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[14][15] | ||||||||
