A look at some potential candidates for the Coalition Avenir Québec leadership
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The upcoming leadership race is the first in the CAQ's history, as Legault co-founded the party in 2011 and has served as its only leader.
After more than seven years in power, Quebec Premier François Legault announced on Jan. 15 that he would step down after the Coalition Avenir Québec chooses his replacement.
The upcoming leadership race is the first in the CAQ’s history, as Legault co-founded the party in 2011 and has served as its only leader.
The party says it will announce the rules for the leadership race on Jan. 22, and while no candidates have officially announced they intend to run, several names are circulating. Other high-profile candidates have already bowed out.
Here are some of those considered to be in the running:
Education: Université de Sherbrooke, master of laws; ENAP public administration graduate school, master of public administration.
Before politics: Lawyer for City of Montreal.
Political record: Jolin-Barrette was first elected in riding of Borduas during the April 7, 2014, provincial election, winning by 99 votes over former Parti Québécois higher education minister Pierre Duchesne. He was re-elected easily in the 2018 and 2022 general elections. In the first CAQ mandate — 2018-2022 — he served as immigration and francization minister, bringing in the province’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, in 2019. The law banned religious symbols on the job for certain public sector employees in positions of authority, including teachers, police, judges, and prosecutors.
In June 2020, he was appointed justice minister but retained the portfolios pertaining to secularism, parliamentary reform and the French language. He piloted Bill 96, the province’s updated French-language law, passed in May 2022. Jolin-Barrette also introduced specialized tribunals for conjugal and sexual violence cases in 2021. He was returned to cabinet after the 2022 election as justice minister. He has been the CAQ parliamentary leader since October 2018.
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