About Jacques Chagnon
Jacques Chagnon (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʃaɲɔ̃]; born August 28, 1952) is a retired Canadian politician who served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 2018. A member of Quebec Liberal Party, he was appointed Minister of Education in 1994, when his party went back on to form government in 2003, he was appointed Minister of Public Security until 2005. He was President of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2011 to 2018. He represented the electoral districts of Saint-Louis from 1985 to 1994 and Westmount–Saint-Louis from 1994 to 2018 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP). He retired from political life in 2018, after serving more than 33 years as a member of the National Assembly. Chagnon was first elected in the riding of Saint-Louis in the 1985 election and was re-elected again in 1989. As President, he created the first international public school in the world the Macdonald-Cartier school and launched the creation of the first sports-study schools in Quebec.
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