Geneviève Guilbault (born November 4, 1982) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the
National Assembly of Quebec
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in a
by-election
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held in the electoral district
Louis-Hébert Louis-Hébert could refer to:
*Louis-Hébert (provincial electoral district)
*Louis-Hébert (federal electoral district)
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Montreal Gazette
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'', October 2, 2017. She is a member of the
Coalition Avenir Québec
The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ; , ) is a Quebec nationalist, autonomist and conservative On October 18, 2018 she was appointed
Deputy Premier
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and Minister of Public Safety.
Prior to her election to the legislature, she worked as a communications officer for the provincial
coroner
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Montreal Gazette
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'', September 7, 2017. She had previously planned to run for the CAQ in the electoral district of Charlesbourg in the 2018 provincial election, but was selected as the by-election candidate in Louis-Hébert after the party's original candidate, Normand Sauvageau, resigned.