When former
premier Pierre-Marc Johnson quit politics in 1987 after losing the
1985 election, Chevrette became Leader of the Opposition. In 1988, the PQ elected a new leader,
Jacques Parizeau, however Parizeau was not sitting in the National Assembly since he had resigned in 1984. In the
1989 election, Parizeau won a seat and replaced Chevrette as Leader of the Opposition. After the PQ won the
1994 election, Chevrette served in various ministerial posts in the cabinet in the governments of Parizeau,
Lucien Bouchard and
Bernard Landry. He resigned and quit politics in 2002. In 2003, he founded a lobbying firm with longtime chief of staff Pierre Chateauvert. In 2005, he was appointed executive officer of the Quebec Forest Council, a private association defending the forestry industry. ==See also==