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Place of Birth: Saint-Raphaël, Quebec, Canada
About Marc Picard
- Marc Picard (born April 25, 1955) is a politician in the province of Quebec, Canada.
- He currently represents the Chutes-de-la-Chaudière district at the National Assembly of Quebec as a member of the CAQ. Born in Saint-Raphaël (Bellechasse), Quebec, Picard has a college diploma in business administration for the Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon and worked for the Quebec Ministry of Revenue for 25 years as a research officer.
- He also studied accounting at Université Laval.
- He also worked for the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Saint-Jean-Chrysostome Helping Agency In 1999, Picard was elected to the council of the town of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome.
- Two years later, the provincial government merged a number of municipal governments including the one of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome to the city of Lévis.
- Picard served on the new city council until he won a seat to the provincial legislature for the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ). Picard was first elected as a Member of the National Assembly in the 2003 election. In 2007, Picard was easily re-elected with 59% of the vote.
- Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate and former Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada, Yvan Loubier, finished second with 18% of the vote. On May 8, 2007, Picard became Third Deputy Speaker of the House.In the 2008 election, Picard won re-election with 45% of the vote, even though his party's support sharply declined. On August 22, 2009, he issued his support for Éric Caire in the leadership race of the ADQ.
- Following Caire's defeat, he and Caire left the ADQ, complaining of the attitude of victor Gilles Taillon.
- On December 19, 2011 he joined the CAQ.
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