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Pierre Ducasse (born August 18, 1972), a Canadian politician, is a prominent New Democratic Party activist.
He grew up in Sept-Îles, Quebec, and studied at Laval University. A party member since age 17, he was appointed interim vice-president of the federal party in 2000, and was elected to the post at the NDP's convention in Winnipeg in November 2001.
In January 2003 he became the first Québécois to run for the federal leadership of the party. Although he placed fifth among the six candidates, his campaign was widely acclaimed for raising the profile of the NDP in Quebec and vice versa.
The campaign speech he gave to the NDP leadership convention in Toronto was acclaimed as one of the most eloquent since the days of Tommy Douglas. His profile was also raised when Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, endorsed him on the first ballot.
Speculation was heard that if it were not for the party's new one member one vote system, which allowed the majority of the party's membership to vote before the convention, he would have obtained a much larger proportion of the vote.
The speech also made his slogan a household phrase among New Democrats: Pour avoir les résultats que vous n'avez jamais eus, il faut faire ce que vous n'avez jamais fait (To get the results you have never had, you must do what you have never done.)
Jack Layton, the Quebec-born winner of the leadership race, appointed Ducasse to be the party's Quebec lieutenant and official spokesman in Quebec.
Ducasse was also the NDP candidate for the 2004 Canadian federal election in his home riding of Manicouagan.
He finished third in a race won by Gérard Asselin of the
Bloc Québécois.
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