Lucienne Robillard

The Honourable Lucienne Robillard PC CM
President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
In office July 20, 2004 – February 6, 2006
Prime Minister	Paul Martin
Preceded by	Denis Coderre
Succeeded by	Michael Chong
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
In office July 20, 2004 – February 6, 2006
Prime Minister	Paul Martin
Preceded by	Pierre Pettigrew
Succeeded by	Michael Chong
Minister of Industry
In office December 12, 2003 – July 19, 2004
Prime Minister	Paul Martin
Preceded by	Allan Rock
Succeeded by	David Emerson
President of the Treasury Board
In office August 3, 1999 – December 12, 2003
Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
Preceded by	Marcel Massé
Succeeded by	Reg Alcock
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
In office August 2, 1999 – January 25, 1996
Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
Preceded by	Sergio Marchi
Succeeded by	Elinor Caplan
Minister of Labour
In office February 22, 1995 – January 24, 1996
Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien
Preceded by	Lloyd Axworthy
Succeeded by	Alfonso Gagliano
Member of Parliament for Westmount—Ville-Marie (Saint-Henri—Westmount; 1995–1997)
In office February 13, 1995 – January 25, 2008
Preceded by	David Berger (1994)
Succeeded by	Marc Garneau
Quebec Minister of Education
In office October 29, 1992 – January 11, 1994
Premier	Robert Bourassa
Preceded by	Michel Pagé
Succeeded by	Jacques Chagnon
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Chambly
In office September 25, 1989 – September 12, 1994
Preceded by	Gérard Latulippe
Succeeded by	Louise Beaudoin
Personal details
Born	(1945-06-16) June 16, 1945 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Residence(s)	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Profession	Social worker

Lucienne Robillard PC CM (born June 16, 1945) is a Canadian politician and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. She sat in the House of Commons of Canada as the member of Parliament for the riding of Westmount—Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec.

Robillard had a career as a social worker before entering politics. In the Quebec election of 1989, she was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Chambly as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. She was appointed to the provincial cabinet of Premier Robert Bourassa as Minister of Cultural Affairs. In 1992, she became Minister of Education, and then served as Minister of Health and Social Services from 1994 until the defeat of the Liberal government.

She then moved to federal politics as a star candidate when she was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election in the safe Liberal riding of Westmount—Ville-Marie. Jean Chrétien appointed her to the federal cabinet as Minister of Labour and Minister responsible for the federal campaign in the 1995 Quebec referendum.

In 1996, she became Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. On August 3, 1999, she assumed the responsibilities of President of the Treasury Board.

When Paul Martin became Prime Minister of Canada in 2003, he moved Robillard to the position of Minister of Industry and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec. With the cabinet shuffle that followed the 2004 election, she became Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

Upon Judy Sgro's resignation from Cabinet on January 14, 2005, Joe Volpe moved to fill the vacant position of Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and Robillard assumed his prior responsibilities as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development. When Belinda Stronach crossed the floor and joined the Liberals in the House of Commons on May 17, 2005, she replaced Robillard as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development.

On February 1, 2006, she was named deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons by Interim Leader Bill Graham. She held this post until the newly elected leader, Stéphane Dion (who represents the nearby riding of Saint-Laurent—Cartierville), in accordance with the customary Anglophone/Francophone division of duties, appointed the Anglophone Michael Ignatieff as his deputy.

On April 4, 2007, she announced she would not run in the next election. She resigned her seat on January 25, 2008.

In 2010 she became co-chair of the election campaign for the Liberal Party of Canada in Quebec. In May 2010 she was elected President of the Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec) (LPCQ) by the Board of directors to replace Marc Lavigne who had resigned for personal reasons a few months after having been elected by the delegates at the October 2009 convention. Lucienne Robillard was also co-chair of the Electoral Commission of the LPCQ in 2010 and 2011 until the commission was dissolved at the start of the 2011 electoral campaign.

As president of the LPCQ she also sits on the National Board of Directors of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Electoral record

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Lucienne Robillard	18,884	45.68	-10.16	$70,313
	Conservative	Louise O'Sullivan	7,295	17.65	+7.58	$27,009
	New Democratic	Eric Wilson Steedman	6,356	15.37	+3.38	$13,082
	Bloc Québécois	Sophie Frechette	5,191	12.56	-2.25	$9,770
	Green	Julie Sabourin	3,451	8.35	+2.30	$122
	Marxist–Leninist	Serge Lachapelle	94	0.23	*	$0
	Communist	Bill Sloan	69	0.17	-0.09	$380
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,340	100.00	$78,264

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Lucienne Robillard	22,337	55.84	-4.39	$63,132
	Bloc Québécois	Louis La Rochelle	5,922	14.81	+4.11	$10,025
	New Democratic	Eric Wilson Steedman	4,795	11.99	+6.79	$5,379
	Conservative	Robert Gervais	4,027	10.07	-6.32	$53,493
	Green	Brian Sarwer-Foner	2,419	6.05	+2.80	$1,039
	Marijuana	David John Proctor	396	0.99	-0.81
	Marxist–Leninist	Serge Lachapelle	103	0.26	-0.13
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,999	100.00	$78,247

2000 Canadian federal election: Westmount—Ville-Marie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lucienne Robillard (incumbent)	23,093	60.19	+0.09
	Progressive Conservative	Bryan Price	4,597	11.98	-5.41
	Bloc Québécois	Marcela Valdivia	4,110	10.71	-0.61
	New Democratic	Willy Blomme	1,990	5.19	-0.53
	Alliance	Felix Cotte	1,697	4.42
	Green	Brian Sarwer-Foner	1,245	3.25	+1.58
	Independent	Michel Laporte	694	1.81
	Marijuana	Patrice Caron	692	1.80
	Marxist–Leninist	Saroj Bains	150	0.39	+0.02
	Natural Law	Allen Faguy	96	0.25	-0.22
Total valid votes			38,364	100.00
Total rejected ballots			331
Turnout			38,695	54.65	-16.04
Electors on the lists			70,801
Source: Official Results, Elections Canada.

1997 Canadian federal election: Westmount—Ville-Marie
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Lucienne Robillard	26,972	60.10	–	$50,294
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Davis	7,802	17.39		$33,542
	Bloc Québécois	Bernard Guité	5,078	11.32		$18,518
	New Democratic	Chris Carter	2,566	5.72		$4,050
	Independent	Roopnarine Singh	1,328	2.96		$13,246
	Green	Brian Sarwer-Foner	751	1.67		$967
	Natural Law	Allen Faguy	212	0.47		$0
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Chouinard	166	0.37		$0
Total valid votes			44,875	100.00
Total rejected ballots			569
Turnout			45,444	70.69
Electors on the lists			64,289
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and official contributions and expenses submitted by the candidates, provided by Elections Canada.

Canadian federal by-election, February 13, 1995: Saint-Henri—Westmount
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Lucienne Robillard	12,675	75.91	$50,775
	Bloc Québécois	Anne Michèle Meggs	2,357	14.12	$8,819
	Progressive Conservative	Jay Gould	545	3.26	$19,236
	Reform	Gaetan Morency	468	2.80	$27,429
	New Democratic	Ann Elbourne	296	1.77	$1,259
	Green	Gerald Glass	213	1.28	$2,080
	Libertarian	Rick Blatter	64	0.38	$2,178
	Marxist–Leninist	Arnold August	47	0.28	$0
	Natural Law	Allen Faguy	32	0.19	$0
Total valid votes			16,697	100.00
Total rejected ballots			100
Turnout			16,797	31.62
Electors on the lists			53,121

1994 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti Québécois	Louise Beaudoin	19,800	48.86
	Liberal	Lucienne Robillard	19,393	47.86
	Natural Law	Michael Larmand	519	1.28
	Development	Camille Bolté	474	1.17
	Sovereignty	Pierre Mondor	336	0.83
Total valid votes			40,522	97.29
Total rejected ballots			1,130	2.71
Turnout			41,652	87.47
Electors on the lists			47,620	–

1989 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Lucienne Robillard	15,435	48.62
	Parti Québécois	Monique Richer	12,939	40.76
	Green	Jocelyne Décary	2,797	8.81
	Parti indépendantiste	Henri Laflamme	572	1.80
Total valid votes			31,743	96.69
Total rejected ballots			1,087	3.31
Turnout			32,830	80.37
Electors on the lists			40,847	–

External links

• Lucienne Robillard – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.