Jacques Ramsay is a family physician practising on Montréal’s South Shore, a coroner, and, until recently, a judge at the Tribunal administratif du Québec – a position he left to run as a Liberal candidate.

He has worked with Doctors Without Borders as a hospital manager in a refugee camp in Afghanistan, as a medical coordinator during the civil war in Liberia, and as the only doctor on site for the reopening of King Faisal Hospital in Kigali during the Rwandan genocide. He later joined Médecins du Monde, providing care in Haiti and treating Montréal’s homeless population, witnessing firsthand the devastating impact of fentanyl and the boundless reach of human suffering.

Convinced that quality health care should be accessible to all, Jacques has worked in small and often Indigenous communities across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and in Northern Canada.

In recent years, he has practised exclusively in the public system on Montréal’s South Shore, caring for 1,200 registered patients. In March 2020, he established a COVID-19 screening and treatment clinic in Longueuil before serving as an assessor in Coroner Kamel’s inquiry into pandemic-related deaths in long-term care facilities.

He also has extensive experience in end-of-life care, having worked in palliative care settings, first at a hospice for adults and later at Le Phare, a hospice for children.

Jacques is also very familiar with the health care system, having served as Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare. He has taught the intricacies of the health care system to law students at Université de Sherbrooke and lectured on social medicine and palliative care to medical students at Université de Montréal.

Since 2018, as a judge at the Tribunal administratif du Québec, he has ruled on cases that are often the last recourse for citizens who feel wronged by the state.

Now stepping into politics, Jacques is determined to stay as connected to voters as he was to his patients.

Jacques has chosen the Liberal Party of Canada because, while we cannot always influence the will of the neighbouring government, Mark Carney is undoubtedly the right leader to guide Canada through these turbulent times and help it emerge stronger.