David Whissell, B. Eng. is a Canadian politician, businessman, engineer and, until September 9, Quebec's Minister of Labour. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the École polytechnique de Montréal in 1990. He worked as an engineer at Whissell Inc. , in Lachute, and became the president and owner of Beton 344 Inc. in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil near Lachute, and the president and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lachute.

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  • David Whissell, B. Eng. is a Canadian politician, businessman, engineer and, until September 9, Quebec's Minister of Labour. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the École polytechnique de Montréal in 1990. He worked as an engineer at Whissell Inc. , in Lachute, and became the president and owner of Beton 344 Inc. in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil near Lachute, and the president and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lachute. Prior to his entry into provincial politics, he was the president of the Liberal Party of Canada association in the Argenteuil region. He is the member for Argenteuil in the National Assembly of Quebec and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He was first elected in a by-election on June 1, 1998, and was re-elected in the general elections held on November 30, 1998 and April 14, 2003. When the Liberals regained power he was named the Parliamentary secretary to Jean Charest. In 2005, after a Cabinet shuffle, he would become the Chair of the Government Caucus and member responsible for the Laurentians. Whissell was the only Liberal member to be re-elected in the Laurentides region in the 2007 elections. He was named Minister of Labour and the Minister responsible for the Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Laurentides and Lanaudière regions. He resigned from the Cabinet on September 9 following a conflict of interest related to a company in which he detained shares. According to a local newspaper, the company, ABC Rive-Nord, specialized in asphalt making, received multiple contracts without call for bids from the Ministry of Transportaion. http://lcn. canoe. ca//infos/national/archives/2009/09/20090910-053442. html He lives together with Francine Vaillancourt and is the father of two children, Justine and Philippe.
  • David Whissell est un homme politique québécois. Député à l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, il représente la circonscription d’Argenteuil depuis le 1er juin 1998 et est membre du caucus libéral depuis cette date. De 2005 à 2009, il siège au Conseil des ministres, dans un premier temps, à titre de président de caucus et, par la suite, à titre de ministre du Travail et ministre responsable des régions des Laurentides, de Lanaudière et de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue. En septembre 2009, il se retire volontairement de sa fonction ministérielle suite à une modification des règles relativement aux intérêts que peuvent détenir les membres du Conseil des ministres. Ayant fait le choix de conserver son patrimoine familial, il continue toujours de siéger comme député libéral d’Argenteuil à l’Assemblée nationale du Québec.
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  • David Whissell, B. Eng. is a Canadian politician, businessman, engineer and, until September 9, Quebec's Minister of Labour. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the École polytechnique de Montréal in 1990. He worked as an engineer at Whissell Inc. , in Lachute, and became the president and owner of Beton 344 Inc. in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil near Lachute, and the president and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lachute.
  • David Whissell est un homme politique québécois. Député à l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, il représente la circonscription d’Argenteuil depuis le 1er juin 1998 et est membre du caucus libéral depuis cette date. De 2005 à 2009, il siège au Conseil des ministres, dans un premier temps, à titre de président de caucus et, par la suite, à titre de ministre du Travail et ministre responsable des régions des Laurentides, de Lanaudière et de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
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