Yes, she is wonderful. I had the pleasure of meeting her during the opening of Boulerice's campaign office.
Here is her story in another context. She refers to herself as Burkinabé, though she was actually born in Ivory Coast. https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cultur/citoyennes/cityn17e.... She grew up in Burkina Faso.
No, I don't think she'll beat Mr Dress-up, but she can speak out for the many people in Papineau who have extremely poor living conditions, especially in Parc-Ex. Now they also face rapid gentrification, after Villeray. The Sciences faculty of Université de Montréal has a new campus there, and new condo buildings are going up.
Antonia will certainly remember Parc-Ex when it was largely Greek (though it has always been multi-ethnic) and some of you might know that there is also a large South Asian population, from the different countries in that huge region. But there are now also quite a few sub-Saharan Africans; both francophone and anglophone (obviously referring to the colonial languages, not the many African ones). Maghrebis tend to live more in the Villeray and St-Michel parts of the riding, as do Latin-American people.
Obviously many Papineau residents voted for Trudeau believing that having a PM as their MP would benefit their riding, but this hasn't materialised except for the Libs (federal and Québec) courting ethnic élites.
As for Laurier-Dorion, it is also solidly Québec solidaire and Projet Montréal; Luc Ferrandez was its mayor for years, pissing off anti-environmentalists. (Yes, Luc could be abrasive). And yes, Nima Machouf is the spouse of Amir Khadir, but also won an election for Projet; however there was an arrangement for her to give up her seat to Bergeron if he didn't win his own.
And of course, like the whole Machouf-Khadir clan, she has long been active in supporting the Iranian people, both in terms of continuing repression of labour, social and feminist movements, while at the same time opposing Western belligerance towards the people of Iran, and caricatures of Iranian society.