About Guy Caron

Guy is a researcher and economist with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP). He previously worked as a journalist with radio stations CKLE and CKMN-FM, and with the newspapers Progrès-Écho and Rimouskois while studying science at the Cégep de Rimouski.

He has also worked for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Council of Canadians where he worked on campaigns relating to Canadian-American relations and health care.

Guy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the University of Ottawa, and was president of the Student Federation. He later became president of the Canadian Federation of Students in 1994. He received a Master’s degree in economics from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Guy was born and raised in Rimouski and now lives in Gatineau with his wife and child.