Yves-François Blanchet

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Yves-François Blanchet
MNA for Drummond
In office 2008–2012
Preceded by	Sébastien Schneeberger
Succeeded by	last member
MNA for Johnson
Incumbent
Assumed office 2012
Preceded by	Étienne-Alexis Boucher
Personal details
Born	(1965-04-16) April 16, 1965 Drummondville, Quebec
Political party	Parti Québécois

Yves-François Blanchet (born April 16, 1965) is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Drummond in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. In the 2012 election he was re-elected, this time in Johnson electoral district. He is a member of the Parti Québécois and currently the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks.^[1]

Blanchet is a graduate from the Université de Montréal where he obtained a bachelor's degree in history and anthropology in 1987. He later worked as a teacher and was a founder of an artist, disc and concert management firm, YFB Inc. while being the president of the ADISQ from 2003 to 2006. He was named the local business personality of the year by the Drummondville Chamber of Commerce, while he and associated artists received 10 Félix Awards.

Politically, he was a member of the Youth National Committee of the Parti Québécois in 1988 as well as a regional director of the PQ.

Blanchet defeated the ADQ's Sébastien Schneeberger in the 2008 election.

References

↑ http://www.mddefp.gouv.qc.ca/ministre/inter_en.htm

External links

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

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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.

Persondata
Name	Blanchet, Yves-François
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	16 April 1965
Place of birth	Drummondville, Quebec
Date of death
Place of death

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