Dominique Anglade

Dominique Anglade (born January 31, 1974) is a female 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. 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 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.

Quotes

• I never shy away from a challenge
• I knew it was going to be tough... But politics is about doing tough things. And about making tough changes.
• You understand what it means not to have a democracy, not being able to vote. The frustration of people saying we want justice or we want food, we want to have a future
• I never regretted once since 2015 entering politics, because it’s about building our collective future
  • Speaking About Her Political Life
• I will challenge Francois Legault on the economy. The economy will be the ballot box question. I challenge him to repeat that labour shortages are good news. I challenge him to see parents whose kids don’t have teachers and won’t have any for the next few weeks. I challenge him to visit entrepreneurs who are being forced to close their businesses because they don’t have enough staff.
• I am thinking of the cost of living; we have families who can’t make ends meet and have to decide whether to pay rent or buy food…
  • Speaking as Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party
• People are extremely frustrated, not only the anglophones, people in general. People are feeling we need to unite ourselves; we need to stop dividing ourselves, because what’s ahead of us is going to be a tough period in terms of the economy.
  • In an Interview With Canadian Press

Quotes About Dominique Anglade

• She’s a young leader, with experience, and she represents a new way of doing politics, in a new generation of politicians... What I love about Dominique is that she is very grounded — she’s able to bring together the daily realities of people and the big picture challenges of the province
  • By Charles Robert, a longtime Liberal Party strategist running to be MNA in Jean-Lesage riding near Quebec City