1. Dominique Anglade was born on January 31,1974 and is a Canadian engineer, businesswoman and former politician who served as the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition of Quebec from May 11,2020 to December 1,2022.
21 Facts About Dominique Anglade
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Dominique Anglade is the first woman to lead the Quebec Liberal Party, the first black woman to lead a provincial party in Canada, and the first person of Haitian descent to be a cabinet minister in Canada.
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Dominique Anglade is the daughter of the academic Georges Anglade.
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Dominique Anglade was the first woman CEO of Montreal International.
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Georges Dominique Anglade was a founder of the Universite du Quebec and a longtime geography professor there, as well as a special advisor to Haitian presidents Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Rene Preval.
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Mireille Neptune Dominique Anglade completed a PhD in economics and worked for NATO monitoring women's rights in Haiti.
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Dominique Anglade spent much of her youth in Haiti, but returned to Canada to attend university.
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Dominique Anglade holds an MBA from HEC Montreal and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.
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Dominique Anglade ran as the CAQ candidate in Fabre in the 2012 election, losing to Liberal Gilles Ouimet.
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Dominique Anglade served as the president of the CAQ from 2012 to 2013.
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Dominique Anglade left that position to become CEO of Montreal International.
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Dominique Anglade explained her political shift by citing objections to the CAQ's positions on ethnic identity and immigration.
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Dominique Anglade served in the cabinet of Philippe Couillard as the minister of economic development, innovation and export trade from 2016 to 2018.
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In 2017, Dominique Anglade was named Deputy Premier of Quebec, holding that office until the Liberal government's defeat in the 2018 election.
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On June 27,2019, following the departure of Philippe Couillard as party leader, Dominique Anglade announced her candidacy for the 2020 Quebec Liberal Party leadership election.
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Dominique Anglade ran on a platform of returning the party to the Quebec nationalism within a framework of federalism associated with previous leaders Robert Bourassa and Jean Lesage.
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Dominique Anglade emphasized expanding the support base of the PLQ beyond Montreal, since the 2018 defeat of the Liberal Party was largely attributed to an overwhelming rejection by voters who lived outside of Montreal.
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Dominique Anglade was named party leader on May 11,2020, after her opponent, Alexandre Cusson, dropped out of the race.
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Dominique Anglade announced her resignation as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party on November 7,2022.
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Dominique Anglade is the first non-interim Liberal leader who did not become premier since Claude Ryan.
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Dominique Anglade has served on the Board of Directors of several organizations including the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, the United Way of Canada, and the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine.