Lise Thibault
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| 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
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In office January 30, 1997 – June 7, 2007 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General |
Roméo LeBlanc Adrienne Clarkson Michaëlle Jean |
| Premier |
Lucien Bouchard Bernard Landry Jean Charest |
| Preceded by | Jean-Louis Roux |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Duchesne |
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April 2, 1939 Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec |
| Spouse(s) | René Thibault |
| Parents | Paul Trudel Laurenza Wolfe |
| Profession | Civil servant, Teacher, Journalist |
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Lise Thibault (French pronunciation: [liz tibo]; born 2 April 1939) was appointed the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec in 1997 and later sentenced to jail for fraud and ordered to repay the government.
Born in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec, she was the eldest daughter of Paul Trudel and Laurenza Wolfe. She was educated at the Académie Marie-Anne de Montréal, and then went on to teachers' college at Cégep de Saint-Jérôme. She married René Thibault in 1959. Thibault was permanently disabled in a tobogganing accident as a teenager, and uses a wheelchair.
Thibault taught with the adult education department of the Milles-Îles and Des Écores school boards from 1973 to 1978. She worked for Télé-Métropole from 1977 to 1981. From 1982 to 1984 she was a host and researcher at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as for programs about family and community issues. She was the vice president for Quebec's Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) from 1987 to 1993. She was President and CEO of the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec from 1993 to 1995.
She was closely associated with the federal Liberal Party for many years, and on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, the Governor General appointed her Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, following the resignation of Jean-Louis Roux in 1997. She became Quebec's first female viceroy, and the first disabled lieutenant governor in Canada. In February 2005 Thibault suffered a stroke. She was one of the longest serving lieutenant governors in Canadian history, serving for over ten years.
Beginning in 2007, Thibault was accused of spending beyond the limits of her expense account. Questions on her spending continued after her departure, with federal and provincial auditors general pointing to $700,000 in unjustified expenses. Among the expenses were:
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