Hon. Jean Charest
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Full Biography
As Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Premier of Qu茅bec, Jean Charest is one of Canada鈥檚 best known political figures.
He was notably the initiator of the negotiation for the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). Furthermore, the Charest government initiated an unprecedented labour mobility agreement between France and Qu茅bec.
As Minister of the Environment, he led his country鈥檚 delegation at the 1992 Earth Summit on the economy and the environment in Rio and was praised for his leadership role among G7 countries on climate change and biodiversity.
The Charest government has been a world leader on the environment and climate change, and best known for a major initiative for the sustainable development of Northern Qu茅bec called 鈥淧lan Nord鈥.
Under his leadership, Qu茅bec experienced a sustained period of economic prosperity with stronger economic growth from 2008 to 2012 than the US, Europe, Canada and Ontario, despite a global financial and economic crisis.
Jean Charest is a Partner at McCarthy T茅trault.
