CAQ minister Geneviève Guilbault to leave politics
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Quebec's Minister of Municipal Affairs Geneviève Guilbault will leave provincial politics at the end of her mandate, citing family reasons, according to a spokesperson for the minister.
She will make the announcement during a news conference Sunday morning in her riding of Louis-Hébert near Quebec City.
The news was first reported by LaPresse and then confirmed by CBC News.
Guilbault served as deputy premier and transport minister from October 2022 until last fall when she picked up the municipal affairs portfolio during the Coalition Avenir Québec's cabinet shuffle.
At the Transport Ministry, she inherited the province's automobile insurance board which was undergoing a digital transition fraught with budgetary issues. She was there, in February 2023, when the board, known as the SAAQ, moved forward with the disastrous launch of its SAAQclic platform.
The provincial government set up the Gallant commission in early 2025 to look into the cost-overruns incurred by the SAAQ's project which were outlined in a scathing auditor general's report that winter.
Earlier this week, Radio-Canada reported the commission issued "notices of misconduct" to some members of Guilbault's cabinet who testified at the public inquiry.
Guilbault had previously said she only found out about the SAAQ's financial situation through the auditor general's report, but the inquiry revealed documents showing she had been made aware of the project's costly trajectory as early as June 2023.
Guilbault was first elected as the MNA for Louis-Hébert in 2017. Until recently, she was touted as a possible replacement to François Legault at the head of the CAQ.
He announced this week he was resigning as premier.
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