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3 unusual facts about Quebec Liberal Party


Alphonse Couturier

Alphonse Couturier (Liberal politician) (1902–1995), a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Rivière-du-Loup

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Pierre Philion

Philion was a supporter of the Quebec Liberal Party and had participated in the campaign of current Hull MNA Roch Cholette who won the seat in the 2003 provincial election which made Jean Charest the new Prime Minister of Quebec.


40th Quebec Legislature

Pauline Marois (PQ) is the premier and Jean-Marc Fournier (Liberal) is the leader of the opposition (the party's leader, Philippe Couillard, does not currently hold a seat).

Claude Jodoin

He was elected in the 23 March 1942 by-election to the National Assembly of Quebec, as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party, representing the Montréal–Saint-Jacques electoral district.

Gilles Deguire

Deguire previously served as a political attaché to Line Beauchamp of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Jean Marchand

Presenting himself as an opponent of the separatist program of the Parti Québécois, he stood as a Quebec Liberal Party candidate in the 1976 Quebec provincial election in the riding of Louis-Hébert but was defeated by Claude Morin of the PQ in an election that resulted in the Parti Québécois forming its first government.

Luc Montreuil

When the provincial Liberal government under Jean Charest announced that sectors could demerge from cities, Montreuil form a pro-deamalgamation movement.

Marcel Côté

In the 1973 Quebec general election, Côté was a candidate for Union Nationale in the riding of Sherbrooke, but lost to Jean-Paul Pépin of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Monique Worth

A native of the borough of Verdun, Worth formerly worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 22 years and was at one time a political attaché to Pierre Marsan of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Paul Sauvé

Arthur Sauvé, his father, had been leader of the Conservative party during the Premiership of Liberal Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and left the provincial politics when elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1930 and became Postmaster General in the R. B. Bennett government.

Philippe Demers

He successfully ran as the Union Nationale candidate in the provincial district of Saint-Maurice in the 1966 general election to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, defeating the liberal incumbent Jean-Guy Trépanier.

Régis Labeaume

She eventually ended second with 32% of the votes, followed by former Quebec Liberal Party Minister of Justice and lawyer Marc Bellemare.

Thierry St-Cyr

He ran in the 2012 Quebec provincial election for the Parti Québécois in Verdun, losing to incumbent Henri-François Gautrin of the Quebec Liberal Party.


see also

Jacques Tremblay

Jacques-Raymond Tremblay (1923–2012), former Member of Parliament of Canada and also Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party for Iberville electoral division

Pelletier

Benoît Pelletier, Quebec Liberal Party minister and MNA in the National Assembly