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Christine Fréchette
MNA
Christine Fréchette MNA
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Sanguinet
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; October 3, 2022
Preceded by	Danielle McCann
Personal details
Political party	Coalition Avenir Québec

Christine Fréchette MNA (born 1970) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2022 Quebec general election. She represents the Sanguinet electoral district as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.^[1]

Professional career

From 1995 to 1996, Fréchette was research and information coordinator at the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec. In 1996, she represented university students during a summit on the social and economic future of Quebec. The same year, she began working for the National Assembly of Quebec as international affairs advisor to the parliamentary conference of the Americas, and as administrative secretary to the Franco-Quebec interparliamentary commission.

From 2000 to 2002, Fréchette was a consultant to the Conseil supérieur de la langue française. She continued her work as a public affairs consultant in private practice from 2002 to 2008. In 2002, she founded the forum for North American intégration, and was president of this organisation until 2011. From 2007 à 2012, Fréchette worked for the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) as coordinator of the study centers of the United States and Mexico.

From 2008 to 2012, Fréchette was a political analyst in the media (Groupe TVA, Société Radio-Canada, RDI, Radio 98,5 FM and Radio 93,3 FM).^[2] In 2012, Fréchette joined the cabinet of Jean-François Lisée, who was minister for international relations, as a press attachée and deputy chief of staff.

After the electoral defeat of the Parti québécois in 2014, Fréchette pursued her career with Montréal International as director of external and institutional relations until 2016. Subsequently, from 2016 to 2021, she was president of the Eastern Montreal chamber of commerce.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Political career

Fréchette stood for election to the Montréal borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles with Denis Coderre and Ensemble Montréal, in the 2021 elections in Montreal.^[6] In August 2022, the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec, François Legault, announced Fréchette as his party's candidate in the Quebec district of Sanguinet in the 2022 Quebec general election.^[7]^[8]

She was appointed minister of immigration, Francization and integration in the François Legault government in October 2022.^[9] One issue that she soon became responsible for were the discussions with the federal Minister of Immigration Marc Miller around quotas on family reunification.^[10]^[11]^[12]

Electoral record

v t e 2022 Quebec general election: Sanguinet
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Christine Fréchette
	Parti Québécois	Daphnée Paquin-Auger
	Québec solidaire	Virginie Bernier
	Conservative	François Gibeault
	Liberal	Rodrigue Asatsop
	Green	Halimatou Bah
	Climat Québec	Martine Lajoie			–
	Marxist–Leninist	Hélène Héroux
Total valid votes				–
Total rejected ballots				–
Turnout
Electors on the lists				–	–

Election results

Plateau-Mont-Royal
**Conseiller d'arrondissement - District électoral de De Lorimier**^[13]
	Parti politique	Nombre de votes	Pourcentage	Majorité
Carl Boileau	Projet Montréal	5,242	48,12 %	1,074
Christine Fréchette	Vision Montréal	4,168	38,26 %
Marc-Nicolas Kobrynsky	Union Montréal	1,484	13,62 %
	Nombre de bulletins de vote rejetées	343
	Nombre total de votes exprimés	11,237	47,61 %
	Nombre total d'électeurs inscrits	23,602