François Desrochers

Infobox QuebecMNA | name= François Desrochers


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party= Action democratique du Quebec
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riding=Mirabel (2007-present)
portfolio= Canadian intergovernmental affairs, aboriginals affairs, Information acesss
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François Desrochers is a politician and teacher from Quebec, Canada, and the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Mirabel.

Desrochers hold a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from the Université du Québec à Montréal and is currently doing a masters degree in the same domain at the Université de Sherbrooke Before his election, Desrochers was a public school teacher for nine years in human sciences and was an assistant principal at École secondaire des Patriotes in Saint-Eustache. [ [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070327/CPACTUALITES02/703270746/6461/CPACTUALITES02 Les nouveaux visages de l'ADQ, La Presse, March 27, 2007] ]

Desrochers was first elected for the ADQ (which he was a member since 1995) in the 2007 election with 44% of the vote. Parti Québécois (PQ) incumbent Denise Beaudoin, finished second with 34% of the vote. Desrochers took office on April 12, 2007. [ [http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2007/04/12/005-AssermentationADQ.shtml Au tour de l'ADQ, Radio-Canada, April 12, 2007] ] On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Education. [ [http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070419/CPACTUALITES/70419084/6488/CPACTUALITES Des postes clés pour Gilles Taillon et Sébastien Proulx, Martin Ouellet, La Presse, April 19, 2007] ]

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* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Membres/notices/d/desf5.shtml François DESROCHERS] at National Assembly of Quebec