Denise Carrier-Perreault
Denise Carrier-Perreault (born June 21, 1946) is a Quebec politician. She represented Chutes-de-la-Chaudière in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1989 to 2003, as a member of the Parti Québécois.
Denise Carrier-Perreault | |
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Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Chutes-de-la-Chaudière | |
In office September 25, 1989 – April 14, 2003 | |
Preceded by | Riding Established |
Succeeded by | Marc Picard |
Personal details | |
Born | Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-De Lévy, Lévis, Quebec | June 21, 1946
Political party | Parti Québécois |
Carrier-Perreault earned a diploma in graphic design from Cégep de Sainte-Foy and a bachelor's degree in industrial relations from Université Laval in 1984. She worked at Bell Canada, as a telephonist from 1963 to 1968, as a union designer from 1968 to 1971 and then as a regional president of the union from 1971 to 1973. From 1984 to 1985 she served as a commissioner with the Chutes-de-la-Chaudière School Board. From 1985 to 1989, she was a Human Resources Management Consultant, just prior to her election, she was a trainer in occupational health and safety.
She ran for the Parti Québécois in the newly created constituency of Chutes-de-la-Chaudière in the 1989 Quebec general election and won. She was re-elected in the 1994 and 1998 Quebec general elections.
Carrier-Perrault served in the government of Lucien Bouchard as Minister for Lands, Mines and Forests.
She did not seek re-election in 2003.[1]