The member for Jean-Talon, Joëlle Boutin, is about to leave politics after three and a half years in the National Assembly.
The elected member of the Coalition avenir Québec has scheduled an announcement for Wednesday afternoon, during which she will probably announce her resignation. The ex-businesswoman and communications specialist, first elected in 2019, met with the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday evening, was able to confirm The duty.
Former chief of staff to the Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital, Éric Caire, Ms. Boutin, 43, has been approached several times to become a minister. When she dethroned the Liberal Party of Quebec during the 2019 by-election in Jean-Talon, she launched to her CAQ colleagues: “get ready, I know how to move files forward”.
However, she remained in the back seats last fall, even if some saw her occupying the role of minister responsible for the Capitale-Nationale region. Since the start of the legislature, she has acted as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of the Economy, Pierre Fitzgibbon.
More recently, she was conspicuous by her absence at the inauguration of phase three of the Promenade Samuel-de-Champlain, which is located in her riding. “I invite you to visit this new site. Come and enjoy the beach and the facilities,” she wrote on Facebook.
Wednesday morning, M.me Boutin had not answered our calls and our messages. The cabinet of François Legault had not, for its part, issued a comment.
Further details will follow.