Monique Gagnon-Tremblay

Monique Gagnon-Tremblay
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay in 2011
Leader of the Opposition
In office March 2, 1998 – April 30, 1998
Preceded by	Daniel Johnson Jr
Succeeded by	Jean Charest
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Saint-François
In office December 12, 1985 – September 17, 2012
Preceded by	Réal Rancourt
Succeeded by	Réjean Hébert
Personal details
Born	(1940-05-26) May 26, 1940 (age 76) Plessisville, Quebec
Political party	Quebec Liberal Party
Cabinet	Minister of International Relations

Monique Gagnon-Tremblay (born May 26, 1940 in Plessisville, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. She was the MNA for the riding of Saint-François in the Estrie region from 1985 to 2012. She served as Liberal leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec from May 1998 to December 1998 and Deputy Premier in 1994 and from 2003 to 2005. Gagnon-Tremblay has been the member of the National Assembly for Saint-François since December 1985.

Gagnon-Tremblay attended the Quirion Business School where she obtained a degree and added a bachelor's degree in arts at the Université Laval and a degree in law and notarial law at the Université de Sherbrooke. She became a notary in Ascot Corner and a lecturer at the Université de Sherbrooke in law. She was also a municipal councilor in Ascot Corner.

She was a Liberal candidate in Saint-François in 1981 but lost. She ran again in 1985 and won. She was named the Delegate Minister for the Status of Women and later the Minister of Cultural Communities and Immigration. After being re-elected in 1989, she was renamed the Minister of Cultural Communities. At the end of the mandate, when Daniel Johnson, Jr. replaced Robert Bourassa as Quebec Premier in 1993, she was named the Minister of Finances, the Deputy Premier and the President of the Treasury Board until the Liberals lost to the Parti Québécois in the 1994 elections. She was then the Caucus chair for the PLQ from 1994 to 1996