Ric Dagenais
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Ric Dagenais is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He has campaigned for the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a candidate of the New Democratic Party.
Born in Ottawa, Dagenais has served as an executive of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and as chair of the Ontario Municipal Employees Coordinating Committee. He is an ex-treasurer of the Ottawa Carleton Credit Union, and has more recently worked as a collective agreement analyst with CUPE.
He campaigned as a candidate of the Ontario New Democratic Party for Ottawa—Orleans in the 2003 provincial election. The NDP does not have a strong presence in this constituency, and Dagenais finished third with 2,778 votes (5.53%). The winner was Phil McNeely of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Dagenais ran for the federal NDP in the 2004 federal election and finished third in Ottawa—Vanier with 9,787 votes (18.54%). The winner was Mauril Belanger of the Liberal Party of Canada. Dagenais faced Bélanger again in 2006, improving the NDP showing to 12,145 votes (21.8%)- however he once again finished a distant third.
