Yvon Marcoux is a politician

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 and administrator

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 in Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

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. He is the current Quebec Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of Vaudreuil

Vaudreuil (provincial electoral district)

Vaudreuil is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The riding was created in 1988 from a part of Vaudreuil-Soulanges. It includes the cities of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Hudson and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot...

 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He is also a former Minister of Justice

Minister of Justice (Quebec)

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 in the Jean Charest

Jean Charest

John James "Jean" Charest, PC, MNA is a Canadian politician who has been the 29th Premier of Quebec since 2003. He was leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1993 to 1998 and has been leader of the Quebec Liberal Party since 1998....

 government.

Marcoux studied at the Université Laval

Université Laval

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 and obtained a bachelor

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's degree in arts as well as a licence in law

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 in 1963 and obtained another diploma in law in 1996. He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1964. For a few years he was a teacher in the faculty of law at Laval. He then worked for the Ministry of Finance and the Quebec Treasury Board

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.

Prior to his political career, Marcoux held several important administration positions including vice-president for the Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada

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, Laurentian Bank and Trust La Laurentienne, in the early 1980s as well as key positions at the province-run "Société général de financement du Quebec" (SGF) as well as private supermarket Provigo

Provigo

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. Before his jump to politics he was the general manager of the "Association des Hopitaux du Quebec".

Marcoux won in the 1998 elections the Vaudreuil seat which was formerly held by Daniel Johnson, Jr. former Quebec Premier.

Marcoux was named Transport Minister in 2003 before being promoting to Justice Minister in a Cabinet shuffle in February 2005. He was re-elected in the 2007 elections

Quebec general election, 2007

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 for a third term but was not named in the new cabinet. Jacques P. Dupuis

Jacques P. Dupuis

Jacques P. Dupuis is a Canadian politician and lawyer. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party and former MNA for Saint-Laurent in the Montreal region, Dupuis is also a former Quebec Minister of Justice and was Minister of Public Security until 2010.Dupuis has a law degree from the Université de...

, who was the Minister of Public Safety, was appointed to the portfolio of Minister of Justice.

Marcoux is married and has four children and five grandchildren.

External links

• Yvon MARCOUX at Assemblée nationale du Québec