Jean-François Roberge

Canadian politician

Jean-François Roberge MNA

Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Chambly
Incumbent
Assumed office April 7, 2014
Preceded by	Bertrand St-Arnaud

Personal details
Political party	Coalition Avenir Québec
Residence(s)	Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada

Jean-François Roberge is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election.^[1] He represents the electoral district of Chambly as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec and is the former Education Minister. He was replaced by Bernard Drainville in October 2022.

He was also the party's candidate in Vachon in the 2012 election.

Prior to his election to the legislature, Roberge was an elementary school teacher, as well as a regular commentator on education issues for TVA's morning talk show Deux filles le matin. He published a young adult novel, Francis perdu dans les méandres, in 2010.

Minister of Education (2018–2022)

Under Roberge's term as Minister of Education, The government show plans to replaced the Ethics and religious culture,^[2]^[3] with a new curriculum which would shift the focus from religion toward culture and citizenship.^[4]

Also as Minister Roberge saw The CAQ government passing bill 40 which saw the French and English school boards being replaced with School service centres.^[5]^[6] The abolishing of school boards is said to save the government more than $10 million.^[6]^[7] Their reason for this is to try to improve the quality of education in Quebec.^[7]

The English school boards of Quebec invoked Article 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, which is the official language minority education rights.^[5] They take legal action to get exempted from Bill 40.^[5]

In December 6, 2022: Minister Roberge tabled a bill that would make the Oath of Allegiance to the King optional for MNAs.^[8]^[9]^[10] That bill passed on December 9, 2022.

Roberge was replaced by Bernard Drainville in October 2022.

Electoral record

v t e 2022 Quebec general election: Chambly
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Jean-François Roberge
	Parti Québécois	Marie-Laurence Desgagné
	Québec solidaire	Vincent Michaux-St-Louis
	Conservative	Daniel Desnoyers
	Liberal	Lina Yunes
	Climat Québec	Sanae Chahad			–
	Démocratie directe	Caroline Boisvert			–
Total valid votes				–
Total rejected ballots				–
Turnout
Electors on the lists				–	–

v t e 2018 Quebec general election: Chambly
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Jean-François Roberge	18,940	50.26	+16.02
	Parti Québécois	Christian Picard	6,564	17.42	-15.67
	Québec solidaire	Francis Vigeant	6,177	16.39	+9
	Liberal	François Villeneuve	4,599	12.2	-10.01
	Green	Camille B. Jannard	683	1.81	+0.7
	Conservative	Guy L'Heureux	309	0.82	+0.42
	New Democratic	Gilles Létourneau	180	0.48
	Bloc Pot	Benjamin Vachon	167	0.44
	CINQ	Gilles Guindon	66	0.18
Total valid votes			37,685	98.64
Total rejected ballots			518	1.36
Turnout			38,203	75.35
Eligible voters			50,699
	Coalition Avenir Québec hold		Swing		+15.85
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Jean-François Roberge	12,130	34.24	+0.08
	Parti Québécois	Bertrand St-Arnaud	11,722	33.09	-7.04
	Liberal	Magdala Ferdinand	7,869	22.21	+5.73
	Québec solidaire	Francis Vigeant	2,618	7.39	+2.40
	Green	Mary Harper	392	1.11	-0.58
	Parti nul	Vincent Dessureault	353	1.00
	Option nationale	Martin Laramée	200	0.56	-1.47
	Conservative	Michael Maher	140	0.40	-0.13
Total valid votes			35,424	98.65	–
Total rejected ballots			483	1.35	–
Turnout			35,907	76.62
Electors on the lists			46,866	–	–
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+3.56

2012 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Bertrand St-Arnaud	15,104	40.13	-3.45
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Martin Trudeau	12,857	34.16	+17.32
	Liberal	Julie Tremblay	6,203	16.48	-15.14
	Québec solidaire	Anne Poussard	1,878	4.99	+2.38
	Option nationale	Martin Laramée	765	2.03
	Green	Nicolas Lescarbeau	633	1.68	-1.26
	Conservative	Daniel Nicol	199	0.53
Total valid votes			37,639	98.95	–
Total rejected ballots			400	1.05	–
Turnout			38,039	83.50
Electors on the lists			45,554	–	–
	Parti Québécois hold		Swing		-10.39

References

^ "François Legault indique qu'il restera à l'Assemblée nationale pour quatre ans". La Presse, April 8, 2014.
^ "Quebec axes high school course on culture and ethics". 8 March 2020.
^ Valiante, Giuseppe (8 March 2020). "End of Quebec course on religion and ethics seen as win for nationalists". National Post.
^ "Quebec's ethics and religious culture course has 'aged poorly,' education minister says".
^ ^a ^b ^c Bourhis, Richard. "Québec's Bill 40 further undermines the province's English-language school system". The Conversation. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
^ ^a ^b "Quebec passes education reforms abolishing school boards". CBC News. February 8, 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
^ ^a ^b Montpetit, Jonathan (February 10, 2020). "Quebec just killed its school boards after 175 years, but will students benefit?". CBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
^ "CAQ tables bill to get rid of mandatory oath to King in Quebec". CBC. 6 December 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
^ "CAQ bill would make oath to King optional for Quebec MNAs".
^ "Quebec tables bill eliminating the requirement to swear oath to King". 6 December 2022.

v t e Current members of the National Assembly of Quebec
Coalition Avenir Québec	Legault Abou-Khalil Allaire Asselin Bachand G. Bélanger S. Bélanger Bernard Biron Blais Blanchette Vézina Blouin Bogemans Boivin Roy Bonnardel Boulet Bourassa Bussière Caire Carmant Caron Champagne Jourdain Charest Charette Chassin D'Amours Déry Dionne Dorismond Drainville Dubé Dufour Duranceau Émond Fitzgibbon Fréchette Gagnon Gendron Girard (Groulx) Girard (Lac-Saint-Jean) Grondin Guilbault Guillemette Haytayan Hébert Jacques Jeannotte Jolin-Barrette Julien Lachance Lacombe Laforest Laframboise Lafrenière Lamontagne Lamothe LeBel I. Lecours L. Lecours Lefebvre Lemay Lemieux M. Lévesque S. Lévesque Mallette Martel Montigny Picard Poulet Poulin Proulx Provençal Reid Rivest Roberge Rouleau N. Roy S. Roy Sainte-Croix St-Louis Schmaltz Schneeberger Simard Skeete Soucy Tardif Thouin F. Tremblay S. Tremblay
Quebec Liberal Party	Tanguay Beauchemin Benjamin Cadet Caron Ciccone Derraji Dufour Fortin Garceau Kelley Lakhoyan Olivier Maccarone McGraw Morin Prass Rizqy Rotiroti Setlakwe
Québec solidaire	Nadeau-Dubois Bouazzi Cliche-Rivard Fontecilla Ghazal Grandmont Labrie Leduc Marissal Massé Zaga Mendez Zanetti
Parti Québécois†	St-Pierre Plamondon Arseneau Bérubé Paradis
Independent	Nichols
Party leaders listed first (in bold italics). Government members in bold denotes cabinet. † Party does not have official party status in the National Assembly.