{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"Marc Picard (born April 25, 1955) is a politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He was MNA for Chutes-de-la-Chaudi\u00e8re district and at the National Assembly of Quebec from 2003 to 2022, first elected as a member of the ADQ, and from 2012 for the CAQ. Born in Saint-Rapha\u00ebl (Bellechasse), Quebec, Picard has a college diploma in business administration for the C\u00e9gep de L\u00e9vis-Lauzon and worked for the Quebec Ministry of Revenue for 25 years as a research officer. He also studied accounting at Universit\u00e9 Laval. He also worked for the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Saint-Jean-Chrysostome Helping Agency In 1999, Picard was elected to the council of the town of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome. Two years later, the provincial government merged a number of municipal governments including the one of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome to the city of L\u00e9vis. Picard served on the new city council until he won a seat to the provincial legislature for the Action d\u00e9mocratique du Qu\u00e9bec (ADQ). Picard was first elected as a Member of the National Assembly in the 2003 election. In 2007, Picard was easily re-elected with 59% of the vote. Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (PQ) candidate and former Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois member of the House of Commons of Canada, Yvan Loubier, finished second with 18% of the vote. On May 8, 2007, Picard became Third Deputy Speaker of the House. In the 2008 election, Picard won re-election with 45% of the vote, even though his party's support sharply declined. On August 22, 2009, he issued his support for \u00c9ric Caire in the leadership race of the ADQ.","birth_date":"1955-04-25","birth_place":"Saint-Rapha\u00ebl","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":46.8,"longitude":-70.75},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q3463263","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3463263","canonical_name":"Marc Picard","canonical_url":"https://fr.instaget.online/people/3ea371133125d407db5a3278","citizenships":["Canada"],"death_date":null,"description":"personnalit\u00e9 politique canadienne","external_ids":{},"full_name":"Marc Picard","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":[],"birth":[],"native":[],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["politician"],"official_websites":[],"photo":{"author":"ThomasVerville","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","source":"Wikimedia Commons","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marc_Picard.jpg","url":"https://instaget-public-commons.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/public/commons/6f2413a36fc07c34b67854f816a50e2c18ad3818d38018956b7823b4fb28f2d7"},"profile_url":"https://fr.instaget.online/people/3ea371133125d407db5a3278","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:03:40Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3288328"},"public_hash":"3ea371133125d407db5a3278","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:politics-and-public-service","label":"Politics and public service","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:politician","label":"politician","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:saint-rapha\u00ebl","label":"Saint-Rapha\u00ebl","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:canada","label":"Canada","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q3288328","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3288328","wikipedia_url":"https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Picard"}