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McDonough announced she was
stepping down on June 5.
Ducasse has been heavily involved in the party and in
community development throughout his native Quebec.
In 1998 he became co-ordinator of the
National Network of Community Development Corporations of Quebec, which consists
of a network of local community organizations.
It has provided Ducasse, who was
raised in Sept-Isle, with the opportunity to speak out on issues such as
community action, community development and the economy.
But long before that Ducasse was involved
with the NDP.
At 17, he was a card-carrying member of the
party, and between 1990 and 1992 he held the position of associate president of
the New Democratic Youth of Canada.
He ran for the party federally in the 1997
election, and he now becomes the first francophone candidate from Quebec to seek the
party's leadership.
Manitoba MP Bill Blaikie is also running for
the job, and the other potential candidates for party leader include MPs Lorne Nystrom and Svend Robinson
and Toronto City Councillor Jack Layton.
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