Stéphane Bédard is a Quebec politician

Politician

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 and lawyer

Lawyer

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. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec

National Assembly of Quebec

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 for the provincial riding of Chicoutimi

Chicoutimi (provincial electoral district)

Chicoutimi is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in Saguenay and contains most of the former city of Chicoutimi...

 and represents the Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

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.

After studying administration at HEC Montréal

HEC Montréal

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, Bedard would received a bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

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 in law at 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...

 and was admitted in 1992 at the Bar of Quebec

Barreau du Quebec

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. He was a lawyer from 1992 to 1998. He was involved in politics during this period being the President of the Parti Québécois in Chicoutimi from 1994 to 1998 and was a Member of the Yes Committee for the 1995 referendum.

Bedard ran for MNA in Chicoutimi in 1998 and was elected. While he was not named in a Ministry position

Minister (government)

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, he was the Parliamentary Secretary

Parliamentary Secretary

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 for the Ministers of Education and Employment and the President of the Treasury Board from 2001 to 2003.

Bédard was re-elected in 2003

Quebec general election, 2003

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 but the Parti Québécois lost to the Quebec Liberal Party. He was named the Assistant Deputy Leader

Deputy Leader

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 of the Opposition and after being re-elected for a third term in 2007

Quebec general election, 2007

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, he was named the PQ's chief Whip

Whip (politics)

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. After the 2008, he was named the House leader of the opposition while being replaced by Pointe-aux-Trembles

Pointe-aux-Trembles (electoral district)

Pointe-aux-Trembles is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located at the north-east point of the Island of Montreal and includes the communities of Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal East. In the 1995 Quebec...

 MNA Nicole Léger

Nicole Léger

Nicole Léger is a politician and the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Pointe-aux-Trembles from 1996 to 2006 and recently elected back as member of the Parti Québécois in a by-election on May 12, 2008.-Background:She was born on March 12, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec and is...

 as Chief Whip of the PQ.

Bédard is the son of politician Marc-André Bédard.

External links

• Biography of Stéphane Bédard