Raymond Bernier

Raymond Bernier (born November 6, 1952) is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. He was first elected to represent the riding of Montmorency in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2003 provincial election, but was defeated in the 2007 provincial election by Hubert Benoît of the Action démocratique du Québec. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2008 provincial election. He is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.^{[citation needed]}

Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Bernier obtained a college degree in administrative sciences from the Cégep de Limoilou and a bachelor's degree in the same field at the Université Laval.^[1]

Bernier worked for three years as a financial management agent before working at the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité au travail (CSST). He served as the Socioeconomic Research and Planning Officer at the Treasury Board Secretariat in 1983 and 1984, at the Ministry of Transport from 1984 to 1986 and at the Ministry of Revenue from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991 to 2003.^[2]

He was also a councillor and substitute mayor for the municipality of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures in central for eight years. In addition to his election wins in 2003 and 2008, he was defeated as a Liberal candidate in La Peltrie in 1994. After his 2007 defeat, he worked as Chief Cabinet for Minister Monique Gagnon-Tremblay. In 2019, Bernier ran for elections as an independent candidate, but he was defeated by a Liberal Party candidate.