Lise Thibault

Lise Thibault ( born April 2, 1939 in Saint -Roch -de- l'Achigan, Quebec ) is a Canadian journalist and civil servant. After her career in broadcasting and public services they held office from 1997 to 2007 as Vice- Governor of the Province of Quebec.

Biography

Thibault suffered in her youth a serious accident and has been confined to a wheelchair. After finishing school, she initially led a flower shop, and later she worked in adult education. She worked from 1977 to 1981 at Télé- Métropole and 1982-1984 at Radio -Canada as a television presenter and editor. In addition, she was active in numerous organizations in the fields of media, gender equality, culture and education. From 1981 to 1988 she was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Laval.

Politically Thibault supported the Liberal Party of Canada, and the Parti libéral du Québec, where she held several party offices. They repeatedly spoke out against the independence of Quebec, and was Vice President of the No Committee before the Quebec referendum in 1980. She ran unsuccessfully for election to the National Assembly of Quebec in 1981 and at the general election in 1984. Starting in 1987, she stood in the service of the provincial government, first. Vice -President of the Commission on Health and Safety, from 1993 to 1995 as President and General Director of the Office for Disabled People

Governor General Roméo LeBlanc sworn Thibault on 30 January 1997 as Vice- Governor of Québec. She was the first woman in this representative office. On June 7, 2007, she stepped back. In February of the same year had been raised that they have made ​​massively high fees charged. Rumors about her Ausgabenfreudigkeit wildly spread even after their resignation. The audit offices of the province and the federal government went from a deficit of $ 700,000 and handed over the documents to the police investigation. On 25 September 2009 Thibault was formally charged; the charge is fraud, breach of trust, forgery and misappropriation of public funds.