Serge Geoffrion
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Serge Geoffrion | |
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| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for La Prairie | |
| In office November 30, 1998 – April 14, 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Monique Simard |
| Succeeded by | Jean Dubuc |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 2, 1955 |
| Party | Parti Québécois |
| Profession | Journalist |
Serge Geoffrion (born May 2, 1955) is a Quebec politician and journalist. He served as the member for La Prairie in the Quebec National Assembly as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1998 until 2003.
Geoffrion attended the Université Laval, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in political science and minored in journalism. He worked at the Centre de formation des journalistes in Paris and then at the newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris in 1980. He returned to Canada as a journalist for Le Peuple de Lévis and worked as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Journalism at Université Laval in 1983. Geoffrion then became editor of Les Nouvelles de Saint-Laurent in 1986 and 1987, and subsequently editor-in-chief of the newspaper L'Événement de Saint-Constant from 1988 until 1989.