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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Guy Chevrette
| honorific-suffix    =  
| image               = Guy Chevrette (Quebec-3 Sept 2012).jpg
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| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1940|01|10}}
| birth_place         = [[Saint-Come, Quebec|Saint-Come]], [[Quebec]]
| residence           =
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| office             = [[List of leaders of the Official Opposition of Quebec|Leader of the Opposition (Quebec)]]
| term_start         = November 12, 1987
| term_end           = August 9, 1989
| predecessor        = [[Pierre-Marc Johnson]]
| successor          = [[Jacques Parizeau]]
| office1             = Interim Leader of the Parti Québécois 
| term_start1         = November 12, 1987
| term_end1           = March 18, 1988
| predecessor1        = [[Pierre-Marc Johnson]]
| successor1          = [[Jacques Parizeau]]
| party               = [[Parti Québécois]]
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'''Guy Chevrette''' (born January 10, 1940, in [[Saint-Come, Quebec]]) served as [[Parti Québécois]] leader of the Opposition in the [[National Assembly of Quebec]], Canada, from 1987 to 1989. He was the MNA for the riding of [[Joliette-Montcalm]] from 1976 to 1981 and [[Joliette (provincial electoral district)|Joliette]] from 1981 to 2002.

== Biography ==

When former [[Premier of Quebec|premier]] [[Pierre-Marc Johnson]] quit politics in 1987 after losing the [[1985 Quebec general election|1985 election]], Chevrette became Leader of the Opposition. In 1988, the PQ elected a new leader, [[Jacques Parizeau]], however Parizeau was not sitting in the National Assembly since he had resigned in 1984.

In the [[1989 Quebec general election|1989 election]], Parizeau won a seat and replaced Chevrette as Leader of the Opposition.

After the PQ won the [[1994 Quebec general election|1994 election]], Chevrette served in various ministerial posts in the cabinet in the governments of Parizeau, [[Lucien Bouchard]] and [[Bernard Landry]].  He resigned and quit politics in 2002.

In 2003, he founded a lobbying firm with longtime chief of staff Pierre Chateauvert.  In 2005, he was appointed executive officer of the Quebec Forest Council, a private association defending the forestry industry.

==See also==
*[[Politics of Quebec]]
*[[List of Quebec general elections]]
*[[List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition]]
*[[Timeline of Quebec history]]

==External links==
*{{QuebecMNAbio|chevrette-guy-2555}}

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