association in Vaudreuil—Soulanges. In 2009, McArthur was hired as special assistant to Chuck Strahl, the federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was promoted to chief of staff in August 2010, when John Duncan was appointed as Strahl's successor. Brome—Missisquoi: Peter Stastny Peter Statsny is a businessman from Sutton Township, Quebec. A former co-owner of the Emporium store in Knowlton, he has also managed the Mont Glen ski resort and been president of the Brome Lake Chamber of Commerce. Before running for federal office, he promoted a tourist train project in Brome—Missisquoi. He was the mayor of Sutton Township from 1993 to 1997 and supported a merger with the neighbouring town of Sutton. In the 1997 municipal election, he lost to an anti-merger candidate. The Quebec government forced the two communities to merge in 2002. Stastny was a Liberal until 2004, when he joined the Conservatives to run as the party's candidate in Brome—Missisquoi. Ironically, he was still on the Liberal Party's membership list when the election took place. He was fifty years old at the time and was chair of the Eastern Townships Community Economic Development and Employability Committee. During the election, he proposed to eliminate campaign signs on ecological grounds. Considered a strong candidate for the Conservatives in Quebec, he received 4,888 votes (11.05%) for a third-place finish against Liberal incumbent Denis Paradis. Stastny's family is of Slovakian origin, and he is a distant relative of the former hockey player and current member of the European Parliament named Peter Stastny. Richelieu: Daniel-A. Proulx Daniel-A. Proulx has a diploma in administration from the University of Montreal. He was an administrator from 1999 to 2003 and later started a computer concepts firm. He has also been president of the Metropolitan Sorel-Tracy Chamber of Industry and Commerce. During the 2004 election, he acknowledged that the Conservative Party had only a minimal presence in his riding. He received 3,726 votes (7.65%), finishing third against Bloc Québécois incumbent Louis Plamondon. Ontario Brampton—Springdale: Sam Hundal Sulakhan Singh (Sam) Hundal (born 1940) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Teaching degree from Punjab University, a Commonwealth graduate's teaching certificate from the School of Education at the University of Leicester, and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Windsor. He works as a real-estate agent and language interpreter. Hundal has been involved in several Brampton community