Candidate profile
Gertrude Bourdon
Parti libéral du Québec — Jean-Lesage
- Riding
- Jean-Lesage
- Status
- accepted_elections_quebec
- Incumbent
- No
- Profession
- Health-network manager and nurse by training
- Education
- Diploma in nursing techniques — Cégep de Limoilou; certificate in management — Université TÉLUQ; multidisciplinary bachelor's degree — Université Laval; graduate studies in public management — ENAP.
- Political experience
- Parti libéral du Québec candidate in Jean-Lesage in the 2018 general election, then in Jean-Talon in the 2019 by-election.
- Community involvement
- Involvement with Opération Enfant Soleil; chair of the Fiducie du patrimoine culturel des Augustines; board member of the Monastère des Augustines and the Fondation Digestive.
A nurse by training who became a senior health-network manager. She was notably executive director of the CHUQ and then president and CEO of the CHU de Québec–Université Laval.