- Laurent Lessard
Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Laurent Lessard
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cabinet= Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
term_start=May 1 ,2003
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predecessor=Marc Boulianne
birth_date= birth date and age |1962|10|28
birth_place=Thetford Mines, Quebec
successor=
death_date=
death_place=
profession= notary
party= Quebec Liberal Party
party colour= Liberal
residence=
riding=Frontenac (2003-present)
portfolio=
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term_start2=
term_end2=
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spouse= |Laurent Lessard (born
October 28 ,1962 inThetford Mines, Quebec ) is apolitician and notary inQuebec ,Canada . He is the current Member of the National Assembly for the provincial riding of Frontenac in Central Quebec south ofQuebec City . Member of theQuebec Liberal Party , he is the current Minister ofAgriculture ,Fisheries andFood and the Minster and the Minister responsible for theCentre-du-Québec region which includesVictoriaville andDrummondville .Lessard obtained a
licence inlaw at theUniversité de Sherbrooke . He was a notary from 1989 to 1998 before being elected asmayor for the City of Thetford-Mines in 1999. He would also be a member of the executive committee of theL'Amiante Regional County Municipality, Quebec .He jumped to provincial politics in the 2003 provincial election and was elected in Frontenac. After being for nearly two years the
Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Municipal Affairs,Sport andLeisure he would become after aCabinet shuffle the Minister of Labour in 2005. WhenYvon Vallières took time off due to health reasons in 2006, he would temporarily had the portfolios of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for a few weeks before obtaining them after the 2007 elections when Vaillières was no longer part of theCabinet . He was also temporarily the Minister responsible forChaudière-Appalaches prior to the 2007 elections.External links
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/j-l/lesl2.shtml Biography of Laurent Lessard] fr icon
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