[1] A longtime PQ supporter, she called for the creation of a provincial walking tour for Brome-Missisquoi in the 2003 election.
[3] Sylvie Simard was thirty-nine years old in 2003 and had been the general manager of Mouvement action-chomage, a lobby group for the unemployed and non-unionized workers, since 1991.
[4] During the 2003 campaign, she defended Quebec's requirement of competency cards for construction workers.
Robert Caron received 9,408 votes (26.76%), finishing second against Liberal incumbent Michel Després.
Yvon Bélair is a veteran entrepreneur based in Magog, Quebec who has worked for many years in the construction sector.