Belgian delegates as members of the PJQ. This opportunity provided a core of young Belgians with the experience to enable them to establish a Youth Parliament of the French Community of Belgium in 1997. Four members of the PJQ were invited to attend the first session. It has now become a tradition that both Quebecer and Belgium simulations receive a delegation from their counterpart every year as a symbol of that initial partnership. List of premiers of the Parlement jeunesse du Québec since 1949 1949-50: Rodney Booth (1st) 1951: Paul Webb (2nd) 1952: Paul Webb (3rd) 1953: Rodney Booth (4th) 1954: Warren Brown (5th) 1955: Don Luke (6th) 1956: Kent Garrett (7th) 1957: Doug Warren (8th) 1958: Bill Howes (9th) 1959: Peter Rowle (10th) 1960: Sydney Norman (11th) 1961: Sydney Norman (12th) 1962: Thomas Von Eicken (13th) 1963: Bill Machika (14th) 1964: Jim Hone (15th) 1965: Andrew Sancton (16th) 1966: Peter Allnutt (17th) 1967: Ian Thurston (18th) 1968: Russ Springate (19th) 1969: Jack Layton (20th) 1970: Jack Layton (21st) 1971: Bert Markgraff (22nd) 1972: Hugh Thomson / Steve Scanlon (23rd) 1973: Kenneth Peel (24th) 1974: David Lambie (25th) 1975: David Howes (26th) 1976: David Malcolm (27th) 1977: Peter MacArthur (28th) 1978: Cathy Hamilton Lambie (29th) 1979: Robert Peck (30th) 1980: Robert Ramage (31st) 1981: Tom Dunton (32nd) 1982: Russell Copeman (33rd) 1983: Stephen Bryce (34th) 1984: Ariel Delouya (35th) 1985: Lorne Gray (36th) 1986: Ira E. Lax (37th 1987: Philippe Paradis (38th) 1988: Sylvain Ross (39th) 1989: Denis Simard (40th) 1990: Éric Bédard (41st) 1991: Éric Wildhaber (42nd) 1992: Charles-André Sauvé (43rd) 1993: Yves Gaboriault (44th) 1994: Caroline Vallières (45th) 1995: Martin Francoeur (46th) 1996: Patrick Ferland (47th) 1997: Pierre-Yves Boivin (48th) 1998: Philippe de Grandmont (49th) 1999: Sébastien Roy (50th) 2000: Christian Ranger (51st) 2001: Catherine Perreault (52nd) 2002: Marc. Etienne Deslauriers (53rd) 2003: Julien Baudry (54th) 2004: Eve-Marie Quintin (55th) 2005: Alexandre Ramacieri (56th) 2006: François Beaudry (57th) 2007: Maxime Prévost-Desjardins (58th) 2008: Benoit Auger(59th) 2009: Geneviève Bois (60th) 2010: Christopher Campbell-Duruflé (61st) 2011: Jérémie Gravel (62nd) 2012: Sophie Gagnon (63rd) 2013: Patrice César (64th) 2014: Anne-Sophie Thommeret-Carrière (65th) 2015: Eugénie Lépine-Blondeau (66th) 2016 : Sarah Ménard-April (67th) 2017 : Gabriel Laurence-Brook (68th) 2018 : Julien Labrosse (69th) 2019 : Céline Gemmel (70th) 2020 : Frédérick Desbiens (71st) 2021 : Frédérick Desbiens (72nd) 2022 : Élodie Lussier-Piché (73rd) List of leaders of the Official Opposition of the Parlement