Serge Ménard

Who is Serge Ménard?

Naval Lieutenant Serge Ménard is a Quebec politician from Canada. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1993 to 2003, and a member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. Outside of politics, he has been a lawyer, lecturer and professor.

He joined HMCS Donnaconna in 1959, within the framework of the UNDT and served in the Royal Canadian Navy until 1968. He was commissoned as an officer in 1962, spent his summers serving in Halifax, Hamilton and Victoria and was promoted to the rank of Lt. in 1964. The following year, in 1965, he was appointed executive officer of the UNDT in Montreal.

He was first elected as a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec in a 1993 by-election in the riding of Laval-des-Rapides. He was re-elected in 1994 and 1998, but defeated in 2003.

During that time he served under a number of Cabinet portfolios: Minister of Public Safety, Minister of State for the Greater Montreal & Minister Responsible for the Montreal Region, Minister of Justice and Attorney General and Minister of Transport.