Michel Audet (born November 12, 1940) is an economist and a politician in

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada. He was the

Finance Minister A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

of Quebec in the first Charest government. Audet was first elected to the

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in the

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. A member of the

Quebec Liberal Party The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; french: Parti libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955. The QLP has always been associated with the colour red; e ...

, he was elected in the riding of Laporte. He has a master's degree of Economics from

Université Laval Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmo ...

and is also a graduate of the

École nationale d'administration The École nationale d'administration (generally referred to as ENA, en, National School of Administration) was a French ''grande école'', created in 1945 by President of France, President Charles de Gaulle and principal author of the Constitu ...

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. An

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, Audet was Minister of Economic and Regional Development from 2003 to 2004. He was made Finance Minister in 2005. On February 13, 2007 he announced that he would be leaving politics at the end of his current term. He is not to be confused with Michel Audet, a professor in industrial relations at Université Laval, who currently serves as the representative of the Government of Quebec in Canada's delegation to

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Parti libéral du Québec, press release, February 13, 2007 - Le député libéral de Laporte, Michel Audet, quittera la vie politique
1940 births École nationale d'administration alumni Finance ministers of Quebec French Quebecers Living people Members of the Executive Council of Quebec Politicians from Saguenay, Quebec Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Université Laval alumni 21st-century Canadian politicians {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub