1. Simon Jolin-Barrette was born on 1987 and is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec.
11 Facts About Simon Jolin-Barrette
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Simon Jolin-Barrette was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 Quebec election.
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Simon Jolin-Barrette represents the riding of Borduas as a member of the Coalition Avenir Quebec.
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Simon Jolin-Barrette is a practicing lawyer, with a BCL, Juris Doctor and Master of Laws from the Universite de Sherbrooke, where he wrote his Masters Thesis on the subject of Senate reform.
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At the time of his election in 2014, Simon Jolin-Barrette was employed as a lawyer by the City of Montreal.
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Simon Jolin-Barrette was part of a group of 40 young entrepreneurs who joined the CAQ at the time of the party's founding in 2011.
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Simon Jolin-Barrette ran as the CAQ candidate in Marie-Victorin in the 2012 Quebec election, coming in second to Bernard Drainville of the Parti Quebecois.
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On October 18,2018, Simon Jolin-Barrette was sworn in as Minister of Immigration of Quebec, under Quebec Premier Francois Legault.
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Simon Jolin-Barrette has been criticized by some for his introduction of Bill 9, on February 7,2019, cancelling out 18,000 immigration applications.
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On June 22,2020, Premier Legault shuffled his cabinet, and Simon Jolin-Barrette was moved to the Ministry of Justice.
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In late 2020, Simon Jolin-Barrette announced plans for 2021 that he will be strengthening Bill 101, the French language in the province of Quebec.