Jamie Nicholls (politician)

Jamie Nicholls
Mayor of Hudson, Quebec
In office
November, 2017 – November, 2021
Preceded byEd Prévost
Succeeded byChloe Hutchison
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Vaudreuil-Soulanges
In office
May 2, 2011 – October 19, 2015
Preceded byMeili Faille
Succeeded byPeter Schiefke
Personal details
Born (1971-10-15) October 15, 1971 (age 52)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyNew Democratic Party
ResidenceHudson, Quebec
ProfessionLandscape architect

Jamie Nicholls (born October 15, 1971) is a Canadian social democrat and politician. He was a New Democratic Party Member of Parliament from 2011 to 2015 and was later the mayor of Hudson, Quebec.

Born in Montreal and raised in Hudson, Nicholls attended both St-Thomas elementary and Hudson High School. He became a New Democrat while enrolled at Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo, BC at the age of 18. He graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts in 1995. During that period, he was an outspoken social and environmental activist in Victoria, BC.

Upon graduating, Nicholls lived and taught in South Korea and Turkey. He was a lecturer in Visual Communication Design in the Faculty of Communications at Istanbul's Bahcesehir University until 2003. He returned to Canada to pursue a graduate degree in landscape architecture from the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Graduating in 2007, he returned to Quebec to work as a landscape architect.

Nicholls is a former Member of Parliament in Canada's 41st parliament. He was elected to represent Vaudreuil-Soulanges in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election.[1][2] On June 20, 2011 Jack Layton appointed him to serve as the Vice-Chair for standing committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities for the official opposition.[3] In 2015, he was appointed Vice-Chair for the standing committee on Official Languages.[3] He was defeated in the 2015 Red Tide election by Liberal Peter Schiefke.[4]

In November 2017, Nicholls was elected mayor of Hudson, Quebec.[5] He lost in the 2021 municipal election.

He lives in Hudson with his wife Amanda MacDonald and their five children.

  1. ^ Election 2011: Vaudreuil-Soulanges. The Globe and Mail, May 2, 2011
  2. ^ Jamie Nicholls (politician) – Parliament of Canada biography
  3. ^ a b "Jamie Nicholls - Roles - House of Commons of Canada". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Red tide crushes incumbent NDP in Vaudreuil-Soulanges". Montreal Gazette. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Nicholls returns to politics amid hope, optimism in Hudson". Montreal Gazette. 7 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2018.