Lise Thériault

Lise Thériault MNA
Theriault (right)
Deputy Premier of Quebec
In office April 23, 2014 – October 11, 2017
Premier	Philippe Couillard
Preceded by	François Gendron
Succeeded by	Dominique Anglade
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Anjou-Louis-Riel Anjou (2002-2012)
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
Residence(s)	Montreal, Quebec
Profession	Editor, Businesswoman
Cabinet	Minister of the Status of Women
Portfolio	Minister of Immigration, Minister of Labour, Minister of Public Security

Lise Thériault (born January 7, 1966 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Quebec politician. She is a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec representing the riding of Anjou–Louis-Riel in Montreal. She was the Deputy Premier of Quebec and Minister for the Status of Women in the Couillard government.

Before entering politics, 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.

Following the 2014 election, she was named Deputy Premier of Quebec and the first woman to become Minister of Public Security in the history of Quebec.

In 2016, she was reassigned to the Status of Women portfolio but remained deputy premier until 2017.

Electoral record

2014 Quebec general election: Anjou–Louis-Riel
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lise Thériault	16,049	50.81	+10.69
	Parti Québécois	Yasmina Chouakri	7,326	23.19	-7.78
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Richard Campeau	5,315	16.83	-2.9
	Québec solidaire	Marlène Lessard	2,448	7.75	+0.48
	Green	Annibal Teclou	303	0.96	–
	Option nationale	Raphaël Couture	147	0.47	-0.79
Total valid votes			31,588	98.58	–
Total rejected ballots			454	1.42	–
Turnout			32,042	73.29	-2.04
Electors on the lists			43,718	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		–

2012 Quebec general election: Anjou–Louis-Riel
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lise Thériault	12,953	40.12	-10.32
	Parti Québécois	Martine Roux	9,998	30.97	-3.47
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Richard Campeau	6,371	19.73	+11.05
	Québec solidaire	Marlène Lessard	2,347	7.27	+3.63
	Option nationale	Raphaël Couture	407	1.26
	Coalition pour la constituante	Samuel Stohl	113	0.35
	Marxist–Leninist	Linda Sullivan	99	0.31
Total valid votes			32,288	98.64	–
Total rejected ballots			446	1.36	–
Turnout			32,734	75.33
Electors on the lists			43,456	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		-3.43

^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ. Template:Quebec provincial election, 2008/Electoral District/Anjou (electoral district) Template:Quebec provincial election, 2007/Electoral District/Anjou (electoral district) Template:Quebec provincial election, 2003/Electoral District/Anjou (electoral district) Template:Quebec provincial by-election, April 15, 2002/Electoral District/Anjou (electoral district)

External links

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