François Desrochers is a politician and teacher from
Quebec
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, Canada. He was an
Action démocratique du Québec
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Member of the
National Assembly
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for the electoral district of
Mirabel Mirabel, Mirabelle or Mirabell may refer to:
*Mirabel (name), a female given name
Places
Austria
*Mirabell Palace, in Salzburg
Canada
*Mirabel, Quebec, a city northwest of Montreal
*Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec
*Mirabel ( ...
from 2007 to 2008.
Desrochers hold a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from the
Université du Québec à Montréal
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UQAM was founded on April 9, 1969, by the government o ...
and is currently doing a
master's degree
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in the same domain at the
Université de Sherbrooke
The Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS; Quebec English, English: ''University of Sherbrooke'') is a French-language Public university, public research university in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, with a second campus in Longueuil, a suburb on the Mont ...
Before his election, Desrochers was a public school teacher for nine years in
human science
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s and was an assistant principal at
École secondaire des Patriotes
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* Éco ...
in
Saint-Eustache.
Desrochers was first elected for the ADQ (which he was a member since 1995) in the
2007 election with 44% of the vote.
Parti Québécois
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incumbent
Denise Beaudoin finished second with 34% of the vote. Desrochers took office on April 12, 2007. On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Education.
Des postes clés pour Gilles Taillon et Sébastien Proulx, Martin Ouellet, La Presse, April 19, 2007
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Electoral record
Federal
Provincial
Footnotes
External links
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Action démocratique du Québec MNAs
Living people
Université de Sherbrooke alumni
Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec
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