Pauline Marois

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Pauline Marois was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on March 29th, 1949 and is the Politician. At the age of 75, Pauline Marois biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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March 29, 1949
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Canada
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Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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Quebec Executive Council, Minister of Finance[lower-alpha 1]In office, March 8, 2001 – April 29, 2003PremierBernard LandryPreceded byBernard LandrySucceeded byYves SéguinIn office, November 3, 1995 – January 29, 1996PremierJacques ParizeauPreceded byJean CampeauSucceeded byBernard Landry (Economy and Finance)Minister of Health and Social ServicesIn office, December 15, 1998 – March 8, 2001PremierLucien BouchardPreceded byJean RochonSucceeded byRémy TrudelMinister of EducationIn office, January 28, 1996 – December 15, 1998PremierLucien BouchardPreceded byJean GaronSucceeded byFrançois LegaultPresident of the Treasury BoardIn office, September 26, 1994 – November 3, 1995PremierJacques ParizeauVice PresidentJacques LéonardPreceded byMonique Gagnon-TremblaySucceeded byJacques LéonardMinister of Manpower and Income SecurityIn office, November 29, 1983 – December 12, 1985PremierRené Lévesque, Pierre-Marc JohnsonPreceded byPierre MaroisSucceeded byPierre Paradis
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Pauline Marois Life

Pauline Marois (French: poln maw) is a retired Canadian politician who served as Quebec's 30th premier from 2012 to 2014. Marois has been a member of the National Assembly in various ridings since 1981 as a representative of the Parti Québécois (PQ), serving as the party leader from 2007 to 2014. She is Quebec's first female premiership.

Marois, a member of a working-class family, pursued social work at Université Laval, married businessman Claude Blanchet, and became an activist in grassroots groups and the Parti Québécois (a social democratic party supporting Quebec's independence). She first became a member of the National Assembly in 1981 after working in ministerial positions. She was elected in the René Lévesque government at the age of 32 for the first time as a junior minister.

After being defeated as a PQ candidate in La Peltrie in 1985 and in 1988 by-election, she was elected member of the Quebec National Assembly for Taillon in the 1989 general election. Premier Parizeau, Bouchard, and Landry named Marois to senior positions in the Quebec cabinet following the PQ's return to power in 1994. Under Premier Bouchard's "deficit zero" strategy, she was instrumental in drafting regulations to end confessional school boards in the public education system, restructured the tuition system, introduced a subsidized daycare scheme, introduced pharmacare and parental-leave plans, and slashed the Quebec deficit. Premier Landry named her Deputy Premier of Quebec in 2001, making her the third woman after Lise Bacon and Monique Gagnon-Tremblay were elected second-highest minister of Quebec.

Marois briefly resigned from political life in 2006 after two failed leadership bids in 1985 and 2005. On June 26, 2007, she stood up to become the seventh leader of the Parti Québécois a year later. She served as the spokesperson of the Official Opposition from 2008 to 2012. Despite internal strife in 2011 and early 2012, where she faced multiple challenges to her leadership from prominent members of her caucus, she became the first female premier in the province's history. Marois, the prime minister of Quebec, halted asbestos production in Quebec and calmed the province's turbulent campuses. The province's 600,000 government employees would be forbidden from wearing religious motifs such as turbans, Islamic veils, and Jewish kippahs, according to her government's most popular project, the creation of a turbulent Quebec Charter of Values. However, under the Quebec Charter of Values, the crucifix (notably, the one that hanged above the speaker's chair in the provincial legislature) would not have been banned. In the 2014 Quebec general election, her party was defeated 19 months later, an election that she herself had called. Marois was personally defeated in the riding of Charlevoix-de-Beaupré and resigned as the PQ leader, and she resigned as PQ leader. Her electoral defeat was the first general election since the Canadian Confederation's first general election in 1970.

Personal life

Catherine (born June 1979), Félix (born October 1980), and Jean-Sébastien (born July 1985).

Marois is an atheist.

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Pauline Marois Career

Youth and early career

Marois was born in Limoilou, a working-class suburb of Quebec City, at Saint-François d'Assise Hospital. Grégoire Marois, a heavy machinery mechanic, and Marie-Paule (née Gingras) and Grégoire Marois, a grandmother of five children, is the oldest of five children. She was born in a two-story brick house built by her father in Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, a small village that now amalgamated with Lévis, facing the provincial capital on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River.

According to Marois, her parents were nationalists and devout Catholics, but politically, they remained uninvolved. The mother's attempts to get the family to recite the Holy Rosary at night tended to last two to three days. Marois has recalled that her father was sympathetic to the ideas of the Social Credit and Union Nationale parties; he kept up with the latest news and even bought the family a television set in the 1950s.

Marois' mother had "profound intuitions" during her youth, and although her father remarked his own lack of fame and education, he was able to devote his children to a good education. Denis, Robert and Marc's three brothers, as well as her sister, Jeannine, will all graduate with university degrees.

Marois recalled that she excelled in French, history, and geography, and she has received numerous books as honors for her academic achievements. She began attending Collège Jésus-Marie de Sillery, an exclusive, all-girl Catholic private school attended by the local bourgeoisie's offspring, a moment she recalls as a "culture shock" that left a permanent mark on her outlook and future choices.

Marois' autobiography revealed that she was aware of her lower social standing in school and in the wealthy houses of Sillery, where she often gave her a hand to her mother, who did housecleaning jobs to pay tuition. She was involved in school clubs and describes herself as a good student, but her English and Latin classes were failing, placing her future in school in jeopardy.

She enrolled in the Université Laval's social work undergraduate program in 1968. Marois recalls that at the time, she was more concerned about the wellbeing of the poor and in international affairs than other topics such as the status of the French language or the Quebec independence movement. She was involved in a study on housing in Lower Town, a city's Lower Town, and protested the Vietnam War, according to her autobiography.

She married Claude Blanchet, a young man from a nearby village and her high school sweetheart, next year. Despite their differences, Blanchet started his first gas station at the age of 17, while a student in company administration, the young couple began a lifelong friendship.

She earned an internship in Hull in September 1970, where she assisted in the establishment of a local chapter of the Association coopérative d'économie familiale (ACEF), a consumer advocacy group, while her husband was recruited by Campeau Corporation, a real estate developer part of Power Corporation. According to Marois, the region was quickly expanding as a result of the federal bureaucracy's expansion and the building of administrative buildings on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River was met with resistance at the time because it did not consider "into account the local population's needs and housing conditions."

This internship, which took place during the October Crisis and her return to Quebec City to graduate in the spring of 1971, had a major influence on Marois. "I arrived in Outaouais as a French Canadian." In her 2008 autobiography, Québécoise, she said, "I left the region identifying as a Quebecer forever."

She worked for a long time as CEO of a Cégep de Hull while building CFVO-TV, a community television station in the Outaouais area, and then moved to Cégep de Hull. On election day in 1973, she served with the Parti Québécois, delivering barbecue chicken to election workers. She earned a master of business administration (MBA) degree from HEC Montréal, where she took two classes with economist Jacques Parizeau. She was recruited as the head of the child services division at the Centre des services sociaux de Montréal Métropolitain after graduating.

Marois left her public service career to join her old professor's office at the Department of Finance in the fall of 1978, but she resigned from her journalism position after six months, feeling Parizeau wasn't "utilizing her to her full potential," she told the former prime minister's biographer and journalist Pierre Duchesne, who was a potential minister in her own 2012 cabinet.

Lise Payette, the minister in charge of women's health, convinced Marois to join her office as chief of staff in November 1979. According to René Lévesque's biographer, Pierre Godin, she hesitated before accepting the job because she felt she was not feminist enough. Payette replied, "You'll be one with me."

First political career

Marois, who was seven months pregnant, resisted entering politics before entering politics. Both her husband and René Lévesque convinced her to run for the PQ in the 1981 general election after some assistance. She ran in the La Peltrie electoral district and gained a 5,337-vote majority on her Liberal opponent, becoming one of only eight women elected that year. Félix, her second child born just 11 days after being a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, was born on April 24.

Lise Payette, the 32-year-old woman who was not running in 1981, joined René Lévesque government as minister for the protection of women. She was elected vice-chair of the Treasury Board in September 1982 and then promoted to minister of labour and income security, as well as minister of Outaouais' oversight at the end of 1983.

Marois was marginally involved in the uprising and infighting that rattled the Lévesque cabinet following Brian Mulroney's ascension as the new prime minister in 1984. Pierre-Marc Johnson, the leader of the kangaroo party, was first approached by the kangaroo faction, who was keen to gain some compromises with the new Conservative government, but later joined the more radical group, the caribou, who oppose the affirmation nationalist party and call for respect for PQ Orthodoxy.

She was one of 12 signatories to a letter in which half of René Lévesque ministers condemned the Premier's proposal of the beau risque approach and ordered that sovereignty be placed at the forefront of the forthcoming election campaign on November 9, 1984. However, she did not resign from her position before the month, as seven of her co-signatories did.

Despite disappointing polls, Marois stepped into leadership after Lévesque's resignation in June 1985. Marois's second position (19.7%) votes were a far cry from Pierre Marc Johnson's 56,925 (58.7%) cast.

While teaching at Université du Québec à Hull, she survived after being defeated in the 1985 general election by Liberal candidate Lawrence Cannon and became treasurer of the Fédération des femmes du Québec and a consultant with the Elizabeth Fry Society.

In the spring of 1987, Marois served in the party's executive until the end of her term. Johnson, who was thrown out of office six months earlier, had chosen not to run for party leader primarily for personal reasons. During an interview with Le Devoir in late January 1988, she fired back at the front runner and former colleague, Jacques Parizeau, for his "unacceptable attitude toward women and his outdated interpretation of social democracy."

Parizeau's remark was less than ten days later, she convinced Marois to return to the PQ national executive as the person in charge of the party's leadership, prompting her to run in the Anjou district, which had been left vacant by Johnson's resignation. Marois came in second, with 44.8% behind René Serge Larouche of the Liberals, on June 20, 1988.

Marois ran again as a candidate in the Longueuil-based riding of Taillon, which had previously been contested by Lévesque. She was elected in the general election in September 1989. In 1989, she became the Official opposition critic for industry and trade in Parizeau, then becoming the Treasury Board and public administration critic in 1991. Following Premier Robert Bourassa's demise of the Meech Lake Accord, she was also a PQ representative on the Bélanger-Campeau Commission.

Marois, who was re-elected for a second term in 1994, became one of Prime Minister Jacques Parizeau's most influential ministers, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry. She ruled Quebec's political scene for nine years. She became the first politician in Quebec history to have the "three pillars of government" — the Finance, Education, and Health portfolios.

In the Jacques Parizeau government, she was first named as the chair of the Treasury Board and as the minister of family. She briefly held the Finance portfolio following the narrow defeat in the 1995 sovereignty referendum before being recalled to head the Department of Education by the new Premier Lucien Bouchard.

During her tenure as Minister of Education, she suggested that the two-decade tuition freeze on higher education in Quebec be lifted. The students' unions that sparked the 1996 Quebec student student demonstrations reacted vehemently against this plan. The tuition freeze was reinstated by the PQ government, but Marois introduced measures that would include an out-of-province fee to non-Quebec Canadian students and a fee for failing CEGEP courses. Bill 109 was also piloted, swapping confessional school boards for language-based ones in Ottawa, which was also enacted by Jean Chrétien's Liberal government in 1997, which introduced a bilateral amendment to the Canadian constitution.

Despite Marois' stead support for the PQ's center-right course under Lucien Bouchard, who promised "zero defect" in order to secure winning conditions for a new referendum on Quebec sovereignty, the government's capitulation in the student demonstrations was seen as a political move to guarantee student participation in the forthcoming general election. Historically, students had been a key voting bloc for the PQ.

In 1997, she began a 5-dollar-a-day subsidized daycare service, which became extremely popular with working families.

Marois served as Minister of Health from 1998 to 2001 during Parti Québécois' second term. Bernard Landry named her deputy premier and minister of finance, respectively, positions she held for two years. She had served in 15 different ministries by 2003 and was instrumental in the second PQ government's legacy (1994–2003).

During her tenure as Cabinet minister, Claude Blanchet's husband, Marois' husband, was named president of the Société générale de financement (SGF), the Quebec government's investment arm. Marois' substantial personal investments in government-owned companies have put her into a difficult situation as a politician, especially during the years she served as both minister of finance and deputy premier.

Following the PQ electoral loss of 2003, she began to plan her leadership campaign. Groupe réflexion Québec, a think tank, was founded by her close supporters. Danielle Rioux, Nicole Léger, Nicolas Girard, Nicolas Girard, Nicole Stafford, Joseph Facal, and Pierre Langlois were the key planners.

Following Landry's abrupt resignation in June 2005, Marois declared her candidacy in the PQ's leadership race. She gained 30.6% of the vote, finishing second behind André Boisclair in second place.

Despite the fact that many in the PQ expected her to lead the party back to victory one day, Marois resigned from the National Assembly in March 2006, saying that after 25 years in elected politics, it was time for her to pursue other interests. She promised to remain active in the PQ, and she reaffirmed her confidence in Boisclair's leadership. Marie Malavoy took over as MNA for Taillon.

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