Editing Lucienne Robillard (section)

{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1945)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = Lucienne Robillard
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|CM|size=100%}}
| image            =
| caption          =

|office          = [[President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada]]
|primeminister   = [[Paul Martin]]
|term_start      = July 20, 2004
|term_end        = February 6, 2006
|predecessor     = [[Denis Coderre]]
|successor       = [[Michael Chong]]

|office1          = [[Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs]]
|primeminister1   = [[Paul Martin]]
|term_start1      = July 20, 2004
|term_end1        = February 6, 2006
|predecessor1     = [[Pierre Pettigrew]]
|successor1       = [[Michael Chong]]

|office2          = [[Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry|Minister of Industry]]
|primeminister2   = [[Paul Martin]]
|term_start2      = December 12, 2003
|term_end2        = July 19, 2004
|predecessor2     = [[Allan Rock]]
|successor2       = [[David Emerson]]

|office3          = [[President of the Treasury Board]]
|primeminister3   = [[Jean Chrétien]]
|term_start3      = August 3, 1999
|term_end3        = December 12, 2003
|predecessor3     = [[Marcel Massé]]
|successor3       = [[Reg Alcock]]

|office4          = [[Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship|Minister of Citizenship and Immigration]]
|primeminister4   = [[Jean Chrétien]]
|term_start4      =  January 25, 1996
|term_end4        = August 2, 1999
|predecessor4     = [[Sergio Marchi (politician)|Sergio Marchi]]
|successor4       = [[Elinor Caplan]]

|office5          = [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Minister of Labour]]
|primeminister5   = [[Jean Chrétien]]
|term_start5      = February 22, 1995
|term_end5        = January 24, 1996
|predecessor5     = [[Lloyd Axworthy]]
|successor5       = [[Alfonso Gagliano]]

| riding6           = [[Westmount—Ville-Marie]]<br />{{small|([[Saint-Henri—Westmount]]; 1995–1997)}}
| parliament6       = Canadian
| term_start6       = February 13, 1995
| term_end6         = January 25, 2008
| predecessor6      = [[David Berger (Canadian politician)|David Berger]] {{small|(1994)}}
| successor6        = [[Marc Garneau]]

| office7             = [[Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Quebec)|Quebec Minister of Education]]
| premier7            = [[Robert Bourassa]]
| term_start7         = October 29, 1992
| term_end7           = January 11, 1994
| predecessor7        = [[Michel Pagé]]
| successor7          = [[Jacques Chagnon]]

| office8          = Member of the [[National Assembly of Quebec]] for [[Chambly (provincial electoral district)|Chambly]]
| term_start8      = September 25, 1989
| term_end8        = September 12, 1994
| predecessor8     = [[Gérard Latulippe]]
| successor8       = [[Louise Beaudoin]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1945|06|16}}
| birth_place      = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| death_date       =
| death_place      =
| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| profession       = [[Social worker]]
| spouse           = 
| residence        = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| footnotes        = 
}}

'''Lucienne Robillard''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|CM}} (born June 16, 1945) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician and a member of the [[Liberal Party of Canada]]. She sat in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as the [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|member of Parliament]] for the [[Electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Westmount—Ville-Marie]] in [[Montreal]], Quebec.

Robillard had a career as a [[social worker]] before entering politics. In the [[1989 Quebec general election|Quebec election of 1989]], she was elected to the [[National Assembly of Quebec]] in the riding of [[Chambly (provincial electoral district)|Chambly]] as a member of the [[Quebec Liberal Party]]. She was appointed to the provincial cabinet of [[Premier of Quebec|Premier]] [[Robert Bourassa]] as Minister of Cultural Affairs. In 1992, she became Minister of Education, and then served as Minister of Health and Social Services from 1994 until the defeat of the Liberal government.

She then moved to federal politics as a [[star candidate]] when she was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in a [[by-election]] in the safe Liberal riding of Westmount—Ville-Marie. [[Jean Chrétien]] appointed her to the federal [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet]] as [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Minister of Labour]] and Minister responsible for the federal campaign in the [[1995 Quebec referendum]].

In 1996, she became [[Minister of Citizenship and Immigration]]. On August 3, 1999, she assumed the responsibilities of [[President of the Treasury Board (Canada)|President of the Treasury Board]].

When [[Paul Martin]] became [[Prime Minister of Canada]] in 2003, he moved Robillard to the position of [[Minister of Industry (Canada)|Minister of Industry]] and [[Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec]].  With the [[cabinet shuffle]] that followed the [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004 election]], she became [[Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (Canada)|Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs]] and [[President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada]].

Upon [[Judy Sgro]]'s resignation from Cabinet on January 14, 2005, [[Joe Volpe]] moved to fill the vacant position of Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and Robillard assumed his prior responsibilities as [[Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development]]. When [[Belinda Stronach]] [[crossing the floor|crossed the floor]] and joined the Liberals in the House of Commons on May 17, 2005, she replaced Robillard as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development.

On February 1, 2006, she was named deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons by Interim Leader [[Bill Graham (Canadian politician)|Bill Graham]].  She held this post until the newly elected leader, [[Stéphane Dion]] (who represents the nearby riding of [[Saint-Laurent—Cartierville]]), in accordance with the customary Anglophone/Francophone division of duties, appointed the Anglophone [[Michael Ignatieff]] as his deputy.

On April 4, 2007, she announced she would not run in the next election. She resigned her seat on January 25, 2008.

In 2010 she became co-chair of the election campaign for the Liberal Party of Canada in Quebec.  In May 2010 she was elected President of the Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec) (LPCQ) by the Board of directors to replace Marc Lavigne who had resigned for personal reasons a few months after having been elected by the delegates at the October 2009 convention.  Lucienne Robillard was also co-chair of the Electoral Commission of the LPCQ in 2010 and 2011 until the commission was dissolved at the start of the 2011 electoral campaign.

As president of the LPCQ she also sits on the National Board of Directors of the Liberal Party of Canada.