Everything about Louise Harel totally explained
Louise Harel (born
April 22,
1946 in
Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec) is a politician in
Quebec,
Canada. On
June 6,
2005 she was chosen
interim leader of the
Parti Québécois following the resignation of
Bernard Landry. She was also interim
leader of the opposition in the
National Assembly of Quebec. She currently holds the seat of
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the
Montreal region
Harel graduated in
1977 from the
Université de Montréal with a degree in sociology and admitted to the
Barreau du Québec in 1978. She worked at the national secretariat, the Centre ddes services sociaux de Montreal and the Social Development Council of Metropolitan Montréal as a staff member. She was a member of the PQ since 1970 and was the president of the party in Montreal-Centre in the 1970s and the vice-president of the party province wide from 1979 to 1981. She was also the vice-president of the Union générale des étudiants du Québec.
She was first elected to the National Assembly in the
1981 election as the
Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for
Maisonneuve. In
1984, she was appointed Minister of Cultural Communities and Immigration by
Quebec Premier René Lévesque, and served until the government's electoral defeat in the
1985 election. She retained her seat that year and in
1989, however, and served in
opposition for the next nine years.
When the PQ returned to power in the
1994 election under the leadership of
Jacques Parizeau, she returned to cabinet as
Minister of Employment and minister responsible for immigration.
After being re-elected in
1998, she later served as Minister of Municipal Affairs. During her tenure as minister, she tabled a
Bill which forced the merger of several small municipalities into one entity and affected all key cities such as
Gatineau,
Montreal,
Quebec City,
Trois-Rivières,
Saguenay,
Longueuil and
Sherbrooke. The project, which was implemented in 2002 was met with mixed reviews and later become a key issue during the 2003 provincial elections.
In
2002, she became the first woman to serve as
Speaker of the National Assembly, and remained in that capacity until the
2003 election, after which she joined the PQ on the opposition benches.
Harel served as interim PQ leader and leader of the opposition until a leadership election chose
André Boisclair as leader on
November 15,
2005. She wasn't a candidate in the
leadership election. She continued to serve as leader of the opposition until PQ leader
André Boisclair won his
seat in the National Assembly on
August 14,
2006.
She was re-elected in the
2007 elections and named the PQ critic in
social services and later she was also giving the portfolio of Status of Women.
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