- Raymond Bachand
Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Raymond Bachand
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cabinet= Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Exports Minister of Tourism
term_start=December 12 ,2005
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predecessor=Pierre-Étienne Laporte
birth_date= birth date and age |1947|10|22
birth_place=Montreal ,Quebec
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death_place=
profession= Attorney, Professor
party= Liberal Party of Québec
party colour= Liberal Party of Québec
residence=Montreal
riding=Outremont (2005-present)
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spouse= Micheline Brazeau|Raymond Bachand (born
October 22 ,1947 inMontreal ,Quebec ) is apolitician , abusinessman and alawyer in Quebec,Canada . He is the Member of theNational Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Outremont, and a member of theQuebec Liberal Party caucus. He is also the current minister ofeconomic development ofinnovation and export trade in the cabinet ofPremier of Quebec Jean Charest .Bachand was educated at the Collège Stanislas, a somewhat prestigious
Roman Catholic private school . He obtained a law degree at theUniversité de Montréal in 1969 and has a masters and doctorate degree in administration atHarvard Business School . He was a member of theQuebec Bar in 1970.Before entering politics he worked in several key positions including in the Quebec's
public sector where he worked in the Ministry of Labour as well as in the Prime Minister's Office. He also taught in theÉcole des hautes études commerciales de Montréal in the early 1970s.He was once the vice-president of
Culinar andMétro-Richelieu and was also president ofGroupe Secor during the 1980s and 1990s. He was also part of the administration of Montreal newspaper "Le Devoir " and member of Montreal'sChamber of Commerce .Bachand was elected on
December 12 ,2005 in Outremont in aby-election after the retirement of former Finance MinisterYves Séguin . There were speculation that Bachand would also occupy that post but was awarded the portfolio of Economic Development, a sector that fascinated Bachand during his professional career.Bachand was easily re-elected in the 2007 elections defeating
Parti Québécois 's Salim Laaroussi by nearly 6,000 votes. He was renamed the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade and was added the portfolios of Tourism and the region of Montreal.External links
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Membres/notices/b/bacr1.shtml Raymond BACHAND] at
Assemblée nationale du Québec
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