Claude Cousineau

Claude Cousineau


MNA for Bertrand
Incumbent
Assumed office December 15, 1998
Preceded by	Denis Chalifoux
Personal details
Born	(1950-02-20) February 20, 1950 Montreal, Quebec
Political party	Parti Québécois
Profession	Teacher
Portfolio	Research, development and technology innovation

Claude Cousineau (born February 20, 1950 in Montreal, Quebec) is a politician and teacher in Quebec, Canada. He represents the constituency of Bertrand in the National Assembly. He represents the Parti Québécois since 1998.

Cousineau studied at the Université du Québec à Montréal and obtained a bachelor's degree in cellular and molecular biology. He also received a certificate in education at the same university. He was a teacher from 1975 to 1978 at a secondary school in Montreal and a science and mathematics teacher at Collège Charles-Lemoyne between 1978 and 1985. He was a program coordinator for three years at the same college and was the general manager of the Académie Laurentienne located near Sainte-Adèle in the Laurentians.

He was also the mayor and councillor of the town of Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides. He was mayor of the municipality from 1989 to 1998 and was also the Chairman in 1982 of an urban planning Commission. He was involved in the economic development in the Laurentians region particularly in Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) des Laurentides in which he served as warden and was president of a regional economic development corporation in 1996. He was also a board member of the Québec Regional County Municipality Association.

Cousineau entered politics in 1998 where he was elected the MNA in Bertrand in the northern Laurentians. He was the Parliamentary Secretary (Assistant) to the State Minister for Municipal Affairs, the State Minister for Health and Social services, the State Minister of Economic development and the Minister of Finance during his mandate. However, he was never been nominated to the Cabinet by Lucien Bouchard or Bernard Landry. When the Parti Québécois lost to the Liberals in 2003, he was re-elected and was named the critic for research, science and technology in 2003 and in innovation in 2005. He was re-elected for a third term in 2007, a fourth in 2012.

References

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

Current members of the National Assembly of Quebec

Quebec Liberal Party	Couillard Anglade Arcand Auger Barrette Bernier Billette Birnbaum Blais Blanchette Bolduc Boucher Boulet Bourgeois Busque Carrière Chagnon Charbonneau Charlebois Chevarie Coiteux D'Amour Daoust H. David de Santis Drolet A. Fortin L. Fortin Fournier M. Gaudreault Giguère Girard Habel Hamad Hardy Heurtel Huot Iracà Kelley Leitão Lessard Matte Ménard Merlini Montpetit Moreau Morin Nichols Ouellette Ouimet P. Paradis Plante Poëti Polo Proulx Reid Rotiroti Rousselle St-Denis St-Pierre Sauvé C. Simard S. Simard Sklavounos Tanguay Thériault Tremblay Vallée Vallières Vien Weil

Parti Québécois	Péladeau Bergeron Bérubé Cloutier Cousineau Drainville S. Gaudreault Gendron Hivon Kotto Lamarre LeBel Leclair Léger Lelièvre Lisée Maltais Marceau Martin Ouellet Martine Ouellet Pagé Poirier Richard Rochon Sylvain Roy Therrien Traversy Turcotte Villeneuve

Coalition Avenir Québec	Legault Bonnardel Caire Charette D'Amours Jolin-Barrette Laframboise Lamontagne Lavallée Lemay Martel F. Paradis Picard Roberge N. Roy Samson Schneeberger Soucy Spénard Surprenant

Québec solidaire	F. David Khadir Massé

Independent	Sylvie Roy

Vacancies: 1

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