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Dominique Anglade
MNA
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Anglade in 2020
Leader of the Opposition of Quebec
In office
May 11, 2020 – November 10, 2022
Premier François Legault
Preceded by Pierre Arcand
Succeeded by Marc Tanguay
Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party
In office
May 11, 2020 – November 10, 2022
President Linda Caron
Preceded by Pierre Arcand (interim)
Succeeded by Marc Tanguay (interim)
Deputy Premier of Quebec
In office
October 11, 2017 – October 18, 2018
Premier Philippe Couillard
Preceded by Lise Thériault
Succeeded by Geneviève Guilbault
Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade
In office
January 28, 2016 – October 18, 2018
Premier Philippe Couillard
Preceded by Jacques Daoust
Succeeded by Pierre Fitzgibbon
President of the Coalition Avenir Québec
In office
January 23, 2012 – November 12, 2013
Leader François Legault
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Maud Cohen
Personal details
Born (1974-01-31) January 31, 1974 (age 50)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party Quebec Liberal
Liberal
Other political
affiliations
Coalition Avenir Québec (2012–2015)
Domestic partner Helge Seetzen
Children 3
Profession Politician

Dominique Anglade MNA (born January 31, 1974) is a Canadian 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. She has served as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2015 to 2022, representing Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne. She is the first woman to lead the Quebec Liberal Party, the first black woman to lead a provincial party in Canada (at the federal level, Vivian Barbot was interim leader of the Bloc Québécois in 2011), and the first person of Haitian descent to be a cabinet minister in Canada. She is the daughter of the academic Georges Anglade. She was also the first woman CEO of Montréal International.

Early life and education

Anglade was born in Montreal to Georges and Mireille Neptune Anglade. Georges Anglade was a founder of the Université du Québec and a longtime geography professor there, as well as a special advisor to Haitian presidents Jean-Bertrand Aristide and René Préval. Mireille Neptune Anglade completed a PhD in economics and worked for NATO monitoring women's rights in Haiti. Dominique Anglade spent much of her youth in Haiti, but returned to Canada to attend university.

Anglade holds an MBA from HEC Montréal and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Before she entered politics, Anglade worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in Montreal.

Political career

Coalition Avenir Québec

Anglade was formerly associated with the Coalition Avenir Québec. She ran as the CAQ candidate in Fabre in the 2012 election, losing to Liberal Gilles Ouimet. She served as the president of the CAQ from 2012 to 2013. She left that position to become CEO of Montreal International.

Quebec Liberal Party

In 2015, Anglade joined the Quebec Liberal Party, and stood as their candidate in a by-election for Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne. She explained her political shift by citing objections to the CAQ's positions on ethnic identity and immigration. She was elected on November 9.

Anglade served in the cabinet of Philippe Couillard as the Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade from 2016 to 2018. This made Anglade the first person of Haitian descent, and the second black woman, to exercise a ministerial function in Canada. In 2017, Anglade was named Deputy Premier of Quebec, holding that office until the Liberal government's defeat in the 2018 election.

On June 27, 2019, following the departure of Philippe Couillard as party leader, Anglade announced her candidacy for the 2020 Quebec Liberal Party leadership election. She 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. She also 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. To that end, she campaigned on a Charter of Regions that made dozens of specific commitments to communities across the province.

Anglade was named party leader on May 11, 2020, after her opponent, Alexandre Cusson (Fr), dropped out of the race. This made her the first woman to lead the Quebec Liberal Party, and the first black woman to lead a provincial party in Quebec.

Anglade announced her resignation as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party on November 7, 2022. She left the National Assembly on December 1. The provincial by-election to replace her was held on March 13, 2023, with Québec solidaire's Guillaume Cliche-Rivard winning the election.

She is the first non-interim Liberal leader who did not become premier since Claude Ryan.

Other activities

Anglade has served on the Board of Directors of several organisations including the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, the United Way of Canada, and the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine.

Anglade's mother, father, uncle, and cousin were killed in the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. Following the earthquake, Anglade co-founded the organisation Kanpe (which is Haitian Creole for "stand up"), a charity to assist rural Haitians with rebuilding after the disaster.

Awards and recognition

  • Hommage Award, Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (2011)
  • Toussaint-Louverture Prize, Young Haitian Chamber of Commerce (2013)
  • Laureate Prix Mérite (2017), L’Association des diplômés de Polytechnique (ADP)
  • Young Global leader (2014), The World Economic Forum. This distinction is awarded each year to the new generation of 40-and-under leaders from around the world who have been recognized for their professional achievements and their commitment to society. Ms. Anglade is the only Quebecker to have received this honor in 2014, among 214 honourees from 66 countries.

Electoral record

Quebec general election, 2022: Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Dominique Anglade 11,728 36.15 -1.91
Québec solidaire Guillaume Cliche-Rivard 8,992 27.72 +3.88
Coalition Avenir Québec Nicolas Huard-Isabelle 5,751 17.73 -0.95
Parti Québécois Julie Daubois 2,683 8.27 -3.20
Conservative Mischa White 2,063 6.36 +5.14
Green Jean-Pierre Duford 620 1.91 -1.33
BM Janusz Kaczorowski 530 1.63
DD Esther Gaudreault 73 0.23
Total valid votes 32,440 98.91
Total rejected ballots 357 1.09 -0.79
Turnout 32,797 57.82 +1.21
Electors on the lists 56,721
Liberal hold Swing -2.90
Quebec general election, 2018: Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Dominique Anglade 11,837 38.06 -13.58
Québec solidaire Benoit Racette 7,413 23.83 +12.89
Coalition Avenir Québec Sylvie Hamel 5,809 18.68 +7.50
Parti Québécois Dieudonné Ella-Oyono 3,568 11.47 -11.01
Green Jean-Pierre Duford 1,009 3.24 +1.36
New Democratic Steven Scott 690 2.22
Conservative Caroline Orchard 380 1.22
Bloc Pot Félix Gagnon-Paquin 202 0.65
CINQ Christopher Young 103 0.33
Marxist–Leninist Linda Sullivan 91 0.29
Total valid votes 31,102 98.12
Total rejected ballots 597 1.88
Turnout 31,699 56.61
Eligible voters 55,994
Liberal hold Swing -13.23
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^ Change calculated from the redistributed 2014 results.

Quebec provincial by-election, 9 November 2015: Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Dominique Anglade 5,325 38.64 -13.88
Parti Québécois Gabrielle Lemieux 4,119 29.89 +7.99
Québec solidaire Marie-Ève Rancourt 2,856 20.73 +10.04
Coalition Avenir Québec Louis-Philippe Boulanger 717 5.20 -5.99
Green Jiab Zou 507 3.68 +1.82
Option nationale Luc Lefebvre 146 1.06 +0.46
Conservative Christian Hébert 110 0.80
Total valid votes 13,780 100.00
Total rejected ballots 115 0.83 -0.61
Turnout 13,895 23.89 -44.40
Eligible voters 58,171
Liberal hold Swing -10.93


Quebec general election, 2012: Fabre
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Gilles Ouimet 13,305 37.50 -10.87
Parti Québécois François-Gycelain Rocque 9,924 27.97 -6.59
Coalition Avenir Québec Dominique Anglade 9,852 27.77 +16.46
Québec solidaire Wilfried Cordeau 1,260 3.55 +0.78
Green Jean-François Lepage 547 1.54 -1.43
Option nationale Bruno Forget 388 1.09  
Independent Philippe Mayrand 207 0.58  
Total valid votes 35,483 98.97
Total rejected ballots 371 1.03
Turnout 35,854 75.96  
Electors on the lists 47,199
Liberal hold Swing -2.14
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