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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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| name                = Jacques Saada
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| honorific-suffix    = [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]]
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| term_start          = 2 June 1997
| term_end            = 23 January 2006
| predecessor         = first member
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1947|11|22}}
| birth_place         = [[Tunis]], [[Tunisia]]
| successor           = [[Marcel Lussier]]
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| profession          = Teacher, businessman
| party               = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| residence           = [[Brossard]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| riding              = [[Brossard—La Prairie]]
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'''Jacques Saada''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} ({{langx|ar|جاك سعادة}}; born 22 November 1947) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician and former [[Canadian Cabinet|cabinet]] minister.

Saada is a teacher and linguist by profession and was [[Chief Executive Officer]] of a translation firm,  a consultant and a lecturer in translation prior to entering politics.

He was first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) from the [[Quebec]] [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Brossard—La Prairie]] in the [[1997 Canadian federal election|1997 federal election]]. He served as Deputy Government [[Parliamentary Whip|Whip]] from 2001 to 2003. When [[Paul Martin]] became [[Prime Minister of Canada]] on 12 December 2003, he had Saada appointed as a [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|privy councillor]](giving him the prenominal "The Honourable" and the postnominal "PC" for life) and to the Cabinet as Minister Responsible for Democratic Reform and [[Government House Leader]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Following the [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004 election]] with the election of a Liberal [[minority government]], Saada was transferred to the positions of [[Minister for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec]] and [[Minister responsible for La Francophonie (Canada)|Minister responsible for La Francophonie]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Saada was born in [[Tunis]], the main city of [[Tunisia]], to a [[History of the Jews in Tunisia|Jewish]] family. In the [[2004 Canadian federal election|2004 election]] his campaign was the target of [[anti-Semitic]] graffiti, letters, and phone calls.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Saada was defeated in the [[2006 Canadian federal election|2006 election]], losing his seat in Brossard—La Prairie to [[Bloc Québécois]] candidate [[Marcel Lussier]]. His former constituency assistant, [[Alexandra Mendès]], defeated Lussier in the [[2008 Canadian federal election|2008 election]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

He was the Quebec Chair for the Rae campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party. In September 2007, Saada was named president and chief executive officer of the Quebec Aerospace Association (AQA). He resigned from that position in December 2011.<ref name="AQA-Affaires">{{cite news|url=http://www.lesaffaires.com/secteurs-d-activite/aeronautique-et-aerospatiale/lex-ministre-jacques-saada-quitte-laqa/538719|title=L'ex-ministre Jacques Saada quitte l'AQA|date=9 December 2011|work=Les affaires|language=fr|access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref>

==Electoral record (partial)==
{{2000 Canadian federal election/Brossard—La Prairie}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=15380}}
*[http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=2205&s=1 Background]
*[https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/37-1/house/sitting-164/hansard Statement in the Canadian Parliament, 9 April 2002]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20010925160738/http://www.aqa.ca/ Quebec Aerospace Association]

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