Dr. Amir Khadir (b. 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is a francophone Iranian-Québécois politician and currently the male spokesperson for Québec Solidaire, a sovereignist political party which was created by the merger of the Union des Forces Progressistes and Option Citoyenne, a feminist political movement, in February, 2006. He was formerly the spokesperson for Union des Forces Progressistes (UFP), a progressive political party in Quebec.
Khadir ran as a candidate for the Bloc Québécois in the riding of Outremont in 2000. He was a member of the Rassemblement pour une alternative politique (RAP) from its inception in 1997 and took part in the founding of the Union des Forces Progressistes in June, 2002. During the Quebec provincial election of 14 April 2003, he contested in the electorate of Mercier as a candidate for the UFP and got 18% of the vote.
In the fall of 2005, Amir Khadir signed the "Manifesto for a Québec based on solidarity".[LCN. [http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/national/archives/2005/11/20051101-085014.html « Pour un Québec solidaire : La gauche réplique au manifeste Pour un Québec lucide »] , "LCN", 1er novembre 2005.] ] Biography
He was born in Tehran in 1961 and immigrated to Quebec at the age of ten.[ He was involved in many humanitarian organizations such as Médecins du Monde.]He studied medicine at Université Laval, physics at McGill University, and completed postdoctoral studies at the Université de Montréal.
A medical specialist in infectious microbiology, he is a doctor who practices at the "Centre hospitalier Pierre-Le-Gardeur" in Lachenaie, Quebec. Khadir is a member of the Coalition des Médecins pour la Justice Sociale (Coalition of Doctors for Social Justice), which opposes the privatization of the Quebec health system. He has led missions to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Palestinian territories for Médecins du Monde and until 2004 presided over the administrative council of SUCO (Solidarité-Union-Coopération).
Dr. Amir Khadir is married to Nima Machouf. They have three children, named Daria, Yalda and Leyli.[Radio-Canada. 2007. citation| [http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/electionsQc2007/partis/QS.shtml Les partis et les chefs : Québec solidaire] , "Élections Québec 2007", 2007.] ]Quebec Provincial Election 2007
Khadir was selected to run by Québec solidaire in the Quebec general election, 2007 in the central Montreal riding of Mercier. Although the party only garnered 3.6% of the vote province wide, Khadir placed a close second in the Mercier riding to Daniel Turp of the Parti québécois with 8303 votes (29% of the riding). He was one of two QS candidates to place second; fellow QS spokesperson Françoise David was the other.
References
Sources
*Union des forces progressistes [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20060607/CPACTUALITES/606070628&SearchID=73247044632685 ]
*Québec Solidaire website - [http://www.quebecsolidaire.net ]
External links
* [http://antigone.koumbit.org/qsmercier/ Québec solidaire - Mercier county website]
* [http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/ Québec solidaire]
* [http://amir-khadir.blogspot.com/ Amir Khadir blog website]
* [http://www.pourunquebecsolidaire.org/ Manifesto for a Québec based on solidarity - Manifeste pour un Québec solidaire]
