Audet was first elected to the
National Assembly of Quebec in the
2003 Quebec general election. A member of the
Quebec Liberal Party, he was elected in the riding of
Laporte. He has a master's degree of Economics from
Université Laval and is also a graduate of the
École nationale d'administration in
Paris. An
economist, Audet was Minister of Economic and Regional Development from 2003 to 2004. He was made Finance Minister in 2005. On February 13, 2007 he announced that he would be leaving politics at the end of his current term. He is not to be confused with Michel Audet, a professor in industrial relations at Université Laval, who currently serves as the representative of the Government of Quebec in Canada's delegation to
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