Lise Thériault

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Lise Theriault

Theriault (right)
MNA for Anjou
Incumbent
Assumed office April 15, 2002
Preceded by	Jean-Sébastien Lamoureux
Personal details
Born	(1966-01-07) January 7, 1966 Toronto, Ontario
Political party	Quebec Liberal Party
Spouse(s)	Gérard Therrien
Residence	Montreal, Quebec
Profession	Editor, Businesswoman
Cabinet	Minister of Labor

Lise Thériault (born January 7, 1966 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Quebec politician. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Anjou in Montreal. She is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party and has been Minister of Labor.

Thériault was for eight years a sales director and was also for nine years an editor and co-founder of l'Édition - Le Journal des Gens d'affaires. She was an administration member of the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Montreal, the CDEC Anjou/Montreal (a development organization) and the Collège Marie-Victorin. She was also a co-founder of a long-term care facility in Montreal.

She was elected in Anjou in a by-election in 2002 and re-elected in 2003. She was named the Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities from 2005 to 2007 and was re-elected in the 2007 elections. Jean Charest did not reappoint her to cabinet in 2007, and Yolande James succeeded her to become the first ever Black cabinet minister in Quebec.

After the 2008 elections, she was named the delegate Minister for Social Services until 2010 where she replaced Sam Hamad as Minister of Labor.

Electoral record

v t e Quebec general election, 2008: Anjou
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lise Thériault	13,082	50.44
	Parti Québécois	Sébastien Richard	8,930	34.43
	Action démocratique	Jacques Lachapelle	2,252	8.68
	Québec solidaire	Francine Gagné	944	3.64
	Green	Sylvie Morneau	727	2.80
Total valid votes			25,935	98.54
Total rejected ballots			385	1.46
Turnout			26,320	58.88
Electors			44,703

v t e Quebec general election, 2007: Anjou
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lise Thériault	13,280	41.36
	Parti Québécois	Sébastien Richard	8,795	27.39
	Action démocratique	Lorraine Laperrière	7,409	23.07
	Green	Alain Bissonnette	1,376	4.29
	Québec solidaire	Francine Gagné	1,151	3.58
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux	99	0.31
Total valid votes			32,110	98.97
Total rejected ballots			333	1.03
Turnout			32,443	72.04
Electors			45,034
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

v t e Quebec general election, 2003: Anjou
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lise Thériault	17,572	53.69
	Parti Québécois	France Bachand	10,573	32.30
	Action démocratique	Martin Janson	4,319	13.20
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux	266	0.81
Total valid votes			32,730	98.46
Rejected and declined votes			513	1.54
Turnout			33,243	73.30
Electors on the lists			45,350
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

v t e Quebec provincial by-election, April 15, 2002: Anjou
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lise Thériault	8,845	54.59
	Parti Québécois	Aude Vézina	4,275	26.38
	Action démocratique	Nathalie Proulx	2,848	17.58
	Green	David Hamel	163	1.01
	Independent	Régent Millette	72	0.44
Total valid votes			16,203	98.91
Rejected and declined votes			178	1.09
Turnout			16,381	46.62
Electors on the lists			35,134
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

External links

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

Political offices
Preceded by none	Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities 2005 –2007	Succeeded by Yolande James
Preceded by Sam Hamad	Minister of Labour 2010 –2012	Succeeded by Agnès Maltais

v t e Current members of the National Assembly of Quebec

Parti Québécois	Marois Beaudoin Bédard Bergeron Bérubé Blanchet Bouillé Breton Bureau-Blouin Cardin Champagne Chapadeau Claveau Cloutier Cousineau De Courcy Drainville Duchesne Dufour Ferland S. Gaudreault Gendron Goyer Hamelin Hébert Hivon Kotto Larouche Leclair Léger Lelièvre Lisée Malavoy Maltais Marceau McKay Ouellet Pagé E. Pelletier I. Pelletier Poirier Proulx J. Richard L. Richard Richer Sylvain Roy St-Arnaud Therrien Traversy Trottier L. Trudel Turcotte Villeneuve Zakaïb

Quebec Liberal Party¹	Fournier Arcand Bergman Billette Blais G. Bolduc Y. Bolduc Boulet Carrière Chagnon Charbonneau Charlebois D'Amour de Santis Diamond Drolet Dutil M. Gaudreault Gautrin Hamad Houda-Pepin Iraca James Kelley L'Écuyer Lessard Marcoux Marsan Ménard Moreau Morin Ouellette F. Ouimet G. Ouimet Paradis Poeti Reid Rotiroti Rousselle Sklavounos St-Amand St-Pierre Tanguay Thériault Vallée Vallières Vien Weil

Coalition Avenir Québec	Legault Bonnardel Caire Daneault Deltell Dubé Duchesneau Le Bouyonnec Lévesque Marcotte Martel Picard N. Roy Sylvie Roy Schneeberger Spénard St-Laurent D. Trudel

Québec solidaire	David Khadir

Independent	Ratthé

¹ Party leader Philippe Couillard is not currently a sitting MNA.

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Persondata
Name	Theriault, Lise
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	January 7, 1966
Place of birth	Toronto, Ontario
Date of death
Place of death

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