Claude Blanchet

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Claude Blanchet is a Canadian financier who served as the CEO of Quebec's Union Funds (Fonds de solidarité de la Fédération des Travailleurs du Québec) and CEO of société générale de financement, a government owned holding.

He started his financial career as the right arm of financial mogul Robert Campeau, serving in the Ottawa region. In his early 30s, Blanchet now with financial independance started to serve in public - labour organizations.

He is married to Pauline Marois, the leader of the Parti Québécois.

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• Le Devoir: Claude Blanchet en entrevue au Devoir - La SGF veut «turbocharger» les économies régionales February 24, 2003

• Le Devoir: Un projet de 280 millions auquel s'associait la SGF - Québec abandonne le mont Sainte-Anne. Claude Blanchet quitte la SGF en empochant plus de 1 250 000 $ May 22, 2003

• The Gazette - How estate was built on public, farm lands