Candidate profile
Eric Girard
Coalition avenir Québec — Groulx
- Riding
- Groulx
- Status
- party_confirmed
- Incumbent
- No
- Profession
- Economist and financier
- Education
- Master's degree in economics — UQAM; honours bachelor's degree in economics and finance — McGill University.
- Political experience
- MNA for Groulx; Minister of Finance and Minister responsible for Infrastructure in 2026; federal candidate in Lac-Saint-Louis in 2015.
- Community involvement
- Former board member and executive committee member of the CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation; former board member of CIRANO.
An economist by training, he worked for nearly 25 years at the National Bank after a stint at the Bank of Canada and in real estate analysis.