corporate director
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,
engineer
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, and
Canadian
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Châteauguay
Châteauguay ( , , ) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, located both on the Chateauguay River and Lac St-Louis, which is a section of the St. Lawrence River. The population of the city of Châteauguay at the 2021 Cens ...
elementary school
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teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...
and a father who worked as an
engineer
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pilot project
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to implement
continuous improvement
A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakth ...
Alcan
Alcan was a Canadian mining company and aluminum manufacturer. It was founded in 1902 as the Northern Aluminum Company, renamed Aluminum Company of Canada in 1925, and Alcan Aluminum in 1966. It took the name Alcan Incorporated in 2001. During t ...
when she enters the
entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
ecosystem in 1997 by contributing to the launch of a relative's company. During her second maternity leave, she dedicates herself full-time to
entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
and develops a passion for it. She becomes a
shareholder
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in "Just in Time Aeronautic Assistance" (JITAA), a
company
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that offers technical assistance,
maintenance
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Biological science
* Maintenance of an organism
* Maintenance respiration
Non-technical maintenance
* Alimony, also called ''maintenance'' in British English
* Champerty and maintenance, two related legal doctrine ...
, and repair services for
aircraft
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. In less than four years, JITAA generated
revenue
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Commercial revenue may also be referred to as sales or as turnover. Some companies receive reven ...
shareholder
A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of a corporation is an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal own ...
.
Affected by the global
economic downturn
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in the
aeronautics
Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight–capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere. The British Royal Aeronautical Society identifies ...
sector due to the
terrorist attacks in the United States
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shareholder
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shares
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of JITAA's American sister company, still in operation at the time, and renames it "JMJ Aerospace".
In order to focus on her new role as Hon. Member for the Châteauguay electoral district in the
shareholder
A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of a corporation is an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal own ...
. JMJ Evolution celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2021.
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
cabinet of ministers
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, she was appointed Minister of the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change. On January 8, 2019, she resigned from her position as minister at the request of the
Prime Minister
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, representing the first cabinet shuffle since the Legault cabinet was sworn in on October 18. She is replaced by
journalist
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Chair
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of the
Committee
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on Citizen Relations on February 6, 2019, a position she held until September 16, 2020.
She began her last role in
politics
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on September 16, 2020, as
Parliamentary
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Assistant to the Minister of Economy and Innovation ("
innovation
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" and "
entrepreneurship
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" sections), a
term
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innovation
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province
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's local strengths in
research
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online
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provincial
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Government & Administration
* Provincial capitals, an administrative sub-national capital of a country
* Provincial city (disambiguation)
* Provincial minister (disambiguation)
* Provincial Secretary, a position in Can ...
business ecosystem Starting in the early 1990s, James F. Moore originated the strategic planning concept of a business ecosystem, now widely adopted in the high tech industry. The basic definition comes from Jim Moore's book, ''The Death of Competition: Leadership and ...
's following strategy, the "SQRI²" (2022–2027), representing an
investment
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In finance, the purpose of investing i ...
of approximately 7.5 billion
CAD
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spread over 5 years.
On May 20, 2022, she announced that she was retiring from political life at the end of her
term
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