Lise Thériault (born January 7, 1966) is a former Canadian politician. She is a former Member of the

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representing the riding of

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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

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. She was named the Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities from 2005 to 2007 and was re-elected in the 2007 elections.

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did not reappoint her to cabinet in 2007, and Yolande James succeeded her to become the first ever

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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. She decided not to seek re-election for the 2022 Quebec Provincial election.

Electoral record

^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Theriault, Lise 1966 births Living people Deputy premiers of Quebec Franco-Ontarian people Members of the Executive Council of Quebec People from Anjou, Quebec Politicians from Montreal Politicians from Toronto Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Women government ministers of Canada Women MNAs in Quebec 21st-century Canadian women politicians 21st-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec