Raymond Côté | |
Office: | Shadow Minister for Small Business and Tourism |
Leader: | Jack Layton Nycole Turmel |
Term Start: | May 26, 2011 |
Term End: | April 18, 2012 |
Predecessor: | Navdeep Bains Gerry Byrne |
Successor: | Francois Lapointe |
Riding1: | Beauport—Limoilou |
Parliament1: | Canadian |
Term Start1: | 2011 |
Term End1: | 2015 |
Predecessor1: | Sylvie Boucher |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1967 |
Birth Place: | Quebec City, Quebec |
Successor1: | Alupa Clarke |
Profession: | Public servant |
Party: | New Democratic Party |
Raymond Côté (born January 10, 1967) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election.[1] He represented the electoral district of Beauport—Limoilou as a member of the New Democratic Party.[2]
Prior to being elected, Côté worked for Services Québec. He ran unsuccessfully in Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière in both the 2006 and 2008 elections. Côté has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Université Laval in economics and international relations. In the 2018 New Democratic Party of Quebec leadership election, Côté stood for leadership of the restarted provincial-level NDP, but he lost to Raphaël Fortin.[3]