Tatiana Auguste
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = Member of Parliament
for Terrebonne
| term_start = April 28, 2025
| party = Liberal
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MP|size=100%}}
| predecessor = Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné
| website = {{URL|https://tatianaauguste.liberal.ca/}}
| birth_date = 2001
| birth_place = Port-au-Prince, Haiti
}}
Tatiana Auguste {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MP}} is a Haitian-Canadian politician. She was elected Member of Parliament for Terrebonne in the 2025 federal election, as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Life and career
{{See also|Terrebonne in the 2025 Canadian federal election}}
Auguste was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2001.{{cite news |last1=Morasse |first1=Marie-Eve |last2=Crête |first2=Mylène |date=May 1, 2025 |title=Terrebonne toujours dans l’attente |url=https://www.lapresse.ca/elections-federales/2025-05-01/difference-de-35-votes/terrebonne-toujours-dans-l-attente.php |trans-title=Terrebonne still waiting |work=La Presse |language=fr-CA |location= |publisher= |access-date=May 10, 2025}}{{cite web |title=Canada : Née en Haïti, Tatiana Auguste a failli devenir la plus jeune députée élue de la 45e législature |url=https://rezonodwes.com/?p=356899 |website=Rezo Nòdwès |access-date=26 June 2025 |language=fr |date=4 May 2025}} Her family immigrated to Canada in 2008, settling in Montreal. She studied economics at Concordia University, afterward working as an E-commerce consultant for the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec. Auguste also worked as an assistant to Emmanuel Dubourg, the then-Member of Parliament for Bourassa.{{cite news |title=Tatiana Auguste |url=https://tatianaauguste.liberal.ca/en/ |publisher=Liberal Party of Canada |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250501163814/https://tatianaauguste.liberal.ca/en/ |access-date=May 10, 2025 |archive-date=May 1, 2025}}
Standing for election for the first time, Auguste was thought to have defeated incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by 35 votes in the initial vote count. However, subsequent validation of the count by Elections Canada instead showed that Sinclair-Desgagné had retained her seat by a 44-vote margin.{{cite news |title=Bloc Québécois wins Terrebonne riding after vote validation |url=https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/05/01/terrebonne-vote-count/ |work=CityNews Montreal |date=May 1, 2025 |access-date=May 10, 2025}} Due to the tight margin, an automatic recount was called.{{Cite web |last=Zimonjic |first=Peter |date=April 29, 2025 |title=Why a minority Liberal government took so long to call |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-minority-vs-minority-count-1.7521714 |access-date=}} On May 10, 2025, the judicial recount in the Superior Court of Quebec flipped the seat back to Auguste by the margin a single vote, the narrowest result in the country.{{cite news |last=Lopez Steven |first=Benjamin |title=Quebec riding of Terrebonne flips to Liberals after recount shows candidate won by single vote |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/terrebone-recount-liberal-1.7532136 |work=CBC News |date=May 10, 2025 |access-date=May 10, 2025}} She was one of four people born in the 21st century elected to the House of Commons in the 2025 election.{{cite news |last1=Major |first1=Darren |last2=Godmere |first2=Emma |title=For the first time, MPs born in the 21st century are headed to the Hill |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/first-mps-born-21st-century-1.7525106 |work=CBC News |date=May 3, 2025 |access-date=May 10, 2025}} Auguste called the experience "a rollercoaster. From winning to not winning, and then winning again."{{cite news |last=Izri |first=Touria |title=Liberal MP celebrates ‘rollercoaster’ win, flipping Quebec seat by one vote |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/11174869/liberal-mp-quebec-terrebonne-win/ |work=Global News |date=May 12, 2025 |access-date=May 12, 2025}}
On May 13, a Bloc voter disclosed that her mail-in ballot had been returned to her due to a postal code misprint on the envelope provided by Elections Canada.{{cite news |last=Lau |first=Rachel |last2=Lofaro |first2=Joe |date=May 14, 2025 |title=Terrebonne resident has ballot rejected after Elections Canada error, Liberals win by 1 vote |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/terrebonne-resident-has-ballot-rejected-after-elections-canada-error-liberals-win-by-1-vote/ |access-date=May 15, 2025 |website=CTV News}} After Elections Canada said that it did not have legal standing to change the result, the Bloc announced on May 15 that it would seek a court order for a new by-election. The same day, Elections Canada stated that five other mail ballots with the incorrect returning address printed had been rejected for having arrived at the Elections Canada office in the riding after the deadline; the statement said that they could not determine if the incorrect address was responsible.{{cite news |last1=Cabrera |first1=Holly |date=May 15, 2025 |title=Bloc Québcois contesting recount in Terrebonne, after 5 more ballot issues declared in riding |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bloc-quebecois-blanchet-recount-challenge-terrebonne-1.7535613 |access-date=15 May 2025 |work=CBC News}}
Electoral record
{{2025 Canadian federal election/Terrebonne}}
References
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{{Current Members of the Canadian House of Commons}}
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Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Category:21st-century Canadian women politicians
Category:Politicians from Port-au-Prince
Category:21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
Category:Women members of the House of Commons of Canada
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec