Alexandre Cloutier

Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Alexandre Cloutier


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birth_place= Chicoutimi, Quebec
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profession= Lawyer
party= Parti québécois
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riding=Lac-Saint-Jean (2007-present)
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Alexandre Cloutier(born September 1, 1977 in Chicoutimi, Quebec) is a Quebec politician and lawyer. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. He represents the Parti Québécois.

Cloutier holds an international bachelor's degree from the Petit Séminaire de Québec, a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Ottawa, a master's degree in constitutional law at the Université de Montréal, a master's degree in public international law from Cambridge University and a doctor's degree in constitutional law at Université Laval.

He worked at the Supreme Court of Canada as a clerk at the Cabinet of Justice Charles D. Gonthier. A member of the Barreau du Quebec in 2002, he was also a lawyer for a year and a lecturer at University of Ottawa. He was also the political aide for former Lac-Saint-Jean MNA and predecessor Stephan Tremblay in 2006 and the former federal MP for Lac-Saint-Jean-Saguenay in 2000.

Cloutier was elected as the riding's MNA in the 2007 elections in which he defeated the Liberal Party local doctor Dr. Yves Bolduc. He was named the PQ's critic in research and development by leader André Boisclair. After Pauline Marois's nomination as the new leader of the PQ, he was named the critic for Canadian intergovernmental affairs

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* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/c/cloa2.shtml Biography of Alexandre Cloutier] fr icon