Richard Marceau (born August 25, 1970) is a Canadian former Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament, who served as an MP for nearly nine years.
[1] Among the bills he sponsored was the Act to establish Holocaust Memorial Day, which received royal assent on November 7, 2003.
[7] He served beginning in 2005 as Chair of the Parliament's Subcommittee on the process for appointment to the Federal Judiciary of the Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.
[1][6] Marceau ran unsuccessfully as the Parti Québécois candidate in Charlesbourg in the 2007 Quebec election.
Marceau converted to Judaism in 2004, 10 years after his marriage to Lori Beckerman, who had been a fellow law student of his and is Jewish.
"[2] He had co-chaired the Canada-Israel Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group and sponsored a bill establishing a national Holocaust remembrance day.
[1] It was published in French and English, and won the 2012 Canadian Jewish Book Award for best memoir.