{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1953)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Michelle Courchesne | image = | caption = | cabinet = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age |1953|05|06}} | birth_place = [[Trois-Rivières]], Quebec | death_date = | death_place = | profession = | party = [[Quebec Liberal Party]] | premier1 = [[Jean Charest]] | office1 = [[Deputy Premier of Quebec]] | term_start1 = May 14, 2012 | term_end1 = September 19, 2012 | predecessor1 = [[Line Beauchamp]] | successor1 = [[François Gendron]] | office2 = Member of the [[National Assembly of Quebec]] for [[Fabre (electoral district)|Fabre]] | term_start2 = April 14, 2003 | term_end2 = September 4, 2012 | predecessor2 = [[Joseph Facal]] | successor2 = [[Gilles Ouimet]] | portfolio3 = | footnotes3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | spouse = Normand Filiatreault }} '''Michelle Courchesne''' (born May 6, 1953, in [[Trois-Rivières]], Quebec) is a former [[Deputy Premier of Quebec]]. A member of the [[Quebec Liberal Party]], she was the [[National Assembly of Quebec|National Assembly]] Member for the riding of [[Fabre (electoral district)|Fabre]] in [[Laval, Quebec]]. She is also the former President of the Treasury Board, Minister responsible for the Laval region, [[Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports (Quebec)|Minister of Education]] and Deputy Premier of Quebec. She is a former Minister of Family, Immigration, Employment and [[Social Solidarity]].
Courchesne attended [[Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf]] before going to the [[Université de Montréal]] and obtained a [[bachelor's degree]] in [[sociology]] and a master's degree in [[urban development]]. She would become an [[Urban planning|urbanist]] from 1976 to 1981 before being elected to the [[City Council]] of Laval. She would also work at the Ministry of Culture and Communications as a [[Deputy Minister (Canada)|Deputy Minister]] before being a member of the Board of Directors of the [[National Bank of Canada]], [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Radio-Canada]], the National Theater School of Canada and the Quebec Mental Health Foundation. She was then the director of the [[Montreal Symphony Orchestra]] and a vice-president for Marketel and Cognicase.
Courchesne entered politics in [[2003 Quebec general election|2003]], where she was elected as the MNA for Fabre while the Liberals regained power after nine years of governing by the [[Parti Québécois]]. She was named by [[Jean Charest]] in the Cabinet as the Minister responsible for the relations with the Citizens and Immigration and was then promoted to Employment and Social Solidarity following a [[Cabinet shuffle]] in 2005 where she took the position occupied by [[Claude Béchard]].
Following the [[2007 Quebec general election|2007 elections]], she was re-elected in a Liberal [[minority government]], and named the Minister of Education, Leisure and Sports as well Minister of Family.
Following the 2008 election, she kept most of the portfolios but gave up the Ministry of Family to [[LaFontaine]] MNA [[Tony Tomassi]]. Courchesne lost the Education portfolio to former Environment Minister [[Line Beauchamp]] in a 2010 cabinet shuffle and became President of the Treasury Board. She regained the Education Minister position, as well as becoming Deputy Premier of Quebec, on May 14, 2012, following Beauchamp's resignation during the ongoing [[2012 Quebec student protests|student protests over tuition hikes]].
She retired at the 2012 election.
==Electoral record== {{2008 Quebec general election/Fabre}}
==External links== * {{Quebec MNA biography|courchesne-michelle-859}}
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