Jean-Marc Fournier

Infobox QuebecMNA | name= Jean-Marc Fournier


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cabinet= Government House Leader, Minister of Revenue, Minister responsable for the electoral reform
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birth_place= Châteauguay, Quebec
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profession= lawyer
party= Quebec Liberal Party
party colour= Liberal
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riding=Châteauguay (2007-present)
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spouse= Maryse Legault|

Jean-Marc Fournier (born October 7, 1959 in Châteauguay, Quebec) is a Quebec politician and a lawyer. He is the current member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Châteauguay and has been since he was first elected in 1994. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, he is the Minister of Revenue and the Government House Leader in the provincial Government of Jean Charest.

Fournier studied at the Université de Montréal and obtained a law degree and later a master's degree in public law. He was admitted to the Barreau du Québec in 1982. He was a lawyer for nearly ten years. He later worked at the offices of the Ministry of Governmental Affairs, Employment and Justice.

He was also a radio host at community radio station CHAI-FM and was an organizer of the 1986 Quebec Winter Games. He was also the president of the Chateauguay Chamber of Commerce and was named Outstanding Citizen in 1987 by the city.

Prior to his entry in provincial politics, Fournier was the defeated candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada in Châteauguay in 1988 and was also involved in the leadership campaign of Paul Martin for Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in which Jean Chrétien eventually won.

Fournier won the 1994 elections and was subsequently re-elected in the 1998, 2003 and 2007 elections. Before the QLP took power in the 2003 election, Fournier at various moments served as the chief whip of the official opposition, critic for Canadian intergovernmental affairs, as well as critic for health.

After his 2003 re-election, he was named the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Sports and Recreation and from 2005 to 2007, he was the Minister of Education, Leisure and Sports for Quebec, Canada. Fournier replaced Pierre Reid in the midst of the 2005 Quebec student strike in which over 200 000 college and university students protested the Liberals cuts in bursary funds in the 2004 budget. Fournier and the students groups settled a deal in April 2005 which included involvement from the federal government and its bursary program.

External links

* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Membres/notices/e-f/fouj2.shtml National Assembly Profile of Jean-Marc Fournier]