Marc Picard

Marc Picard (born April 25, 1955) is a politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He was MNA for Chutes-de-la-Chaudière district and at the National Assembly of Quebec from 2003 to 2022, first elected as a member of the ADQ, and from 2012 for the CAQ. Born in Saint-Raphaël (Bellechasse), Quebec, Picard has a college diploma in business administration for the Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon and worked for the Quebec Ministry of Revenue for 25 years as a research officer. He also studied accounting at Université Laval.

He also worked for the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Saint-Jean-Chrysostome Helping Agency In 1999, Picard was elected to the council of the town of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome. Two years later, the provincial government merged a number of municipal governments including the one of Saint-Jean-Chrysostome to the city of Lévis. Picard served on the new city council until he won a seat to the provincial legislature for the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ).

Picard was first elected as a Member of the National Assembly in the 2003 election. In 2007, Picard was easily re-elected with 59% of the vote. Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate and former Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada, Yvan Loubier, finished second with 18% of the vote. On May 8, 2007, Picard became Third Deputy Speaker of the House. In the 2008 election, Picard won re-election with 45% of the vote, even though his party's support sharply declined.

On August 22, 2009, he issued his support for Éric Caire in the leadership race of the ADQ.