Lise Thériault

Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Lise Theriault


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predecessor= Jean-Sebastien Lamoureux
birth_date= birth date and age |1966|01|07
birth_place= Toronto, Ontario
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party= Quebec Liberal Party
party colour= Liberal
residence=Montreal
riding=Anjou (2002-present)
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spouse= Gerard Therrien|

Lise Thériault (born January 7, 1966 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Quebec politician. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Anjou in Montreal She is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

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 College 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 2003. She was named the Minister of immigration and Cultural communities from 2005 to 2007 and was re-elected in the 2007 elections. She was not named in the Jean Charest Cabinet and Yolande James succeeded her as Minister of Immigration and Cultural communities becoming the first ever Black Minister in Quebec.

External links

* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/t-u/thel3.shtml Biography of Lise Theriault] fr icon