Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Eric Girard | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MNA |
Office: | Minister of Finance |
Premier: | François Legault |
Term Start: | October 18, 2018 |
Predecessor: | Carlos Leitão |
Office2: | Minister responsible for Relations with English-Speaking Quebecers |
Term Start2: | October 20, 2022 |
Predecessor2: | François Legault |
Term Start3: | June 2, 2021 |
Term End3: | September 1, 2021 |
Successor3: | Pierre Fitzgibbon |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Groulx |
Term Start1: | October 1, 2018 |
Birth Date: | 9 October 1966 |
Birth Place: | Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada |
Party: | Coalition Avenir Québec (provincial) Conservative (federal) |
Occupation: | Banker |
Eric Girard is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election.[1] He represents the electoral district of Groulx as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and has served as the Minister of Finance since 2018.
He worked as a senior manager with the National Bank of Canada for over 20 years.[2]
Girard was recruited as a star candidate to run for the Conservative Party of Canada in the Montreal riding of Lac-Saint-Louis for the 2015 federal election.[2] He finished a distant second to Liberal incumbent Francis Scarpaleggia.
In 2018, he was elected as the Coalition Avenir Québec MNA in the suburban Montreal riding of Groulx.