Benoit Charette (born July 19, 1976) is a

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politician who was elected in the 2008 provincial election for Deux-Montagnes. He was a member of the

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, but left the party on June 21, 2011 to protest the party's focus on sovereignty. On December 19, 2011 he joined the

Coalition Avenir Québec The Coalition Avenir Québec (, , CAQ) is a Quebec nationalism, Quebec nationalist, Autonomism in Quebec, autonomist and conservatism, conservative

and is the current Minister of Sustainable Development and Environment. In 2021 he was assigned a new provincial role in combating racism. A graduate of

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with a

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in history, he also studied municipal development at the

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. He worked as program manager at the Ministry of International Relations. He was also responsible for the documentation center at the Quebec General Delegation Délégation générale du Québec in Mexico. Charette defeated the ADQ's Lucie Leblanc in Deux-Montagnes in the 2008 elections.

Electoral record

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* Living people Parti Québécois MNAs Université du Québec à Montréal alumni Coalition Avenir Québec MNAs 1976 births 21st-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec {{CoalitionAvenirQuébec-Quebec-MNA-stub