Marie Bouillé
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Marie Bouillé is a politician in the Canadian
Canada
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 province of Quebec
Quebec
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, who was elected to represent the riding of Iberville in the National Assembly of Quebec
National Assembly of Quebec
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 in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Parti Québécois
Parti Québécois
The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...

.

Bouille is a graduate from the Université Laval
Université Laval
Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...

 and the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

. She obtained a bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
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 in geography
Geography
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 from Montreal University in 1979 and later obtained a master's degree
Master's degree
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 in hydrology
Hydrology
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 at Laval in 1983. She also made studies at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières , established in 1969 is a campus of the Université du Québec, located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. The university has 12,500 students in 8 different campuses, including the main one in Trois-Rivières. About 1000 of them come from overseas, from 60...

 in project management
Project management
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 in 1984.

Between 1994 and 1996, she was a juridical councilor for the cabinet of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and also worked for the government's Family Secretary in 1993. Between 1997 and 2006 she was the general manager for the Potato Producer Foundation (part of the Union des producteurs agricoles
Union des producteurs agricoles
The Union des producteurs agricoles is an agricultural trade union representing producers in the Canadian province of Quebec. Originally a Catholic union called the Union catholique des cultivateurs , it shed its denominational character as a result of the Quiet Revolution and has existed in its...

) and was also the director for women agriculture workers of the UPA in the late 1980s.

Prior to her political career, she was a member of several PQ sub-committees and commissions between 2000 and 2005. Prior to her election in 2008, she was also the candidate in Iberville in the 2007 elections
Quebec general election, 2007
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 but lost to the ADQ's
Action démocratique du Québec
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 André Riedl
André Riedl
André Riedl is a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was a Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Iberville from 2007 to 2008....

 whom Bouille defeated in 2008 while he Riedl was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party following a cross-over just before the election.

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