Joanne Marcotte

Joanne Marcotte is a Canadian libertarian^[1][2][3] political activist and one of the founding members of the Réseau Liberté-Québec.^[4] She made a documentary, L'illusion tranquille, and wrote an essay criticizing Quebec's social democratic economic system. She was active in the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) from 2003 to 2009.

She holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Université Laval and is pursuing a master's degree in public affairs.

Political activism

• From 2004 to 2006, in coproduction with Denis Julien, Joanne Marcotte realized L'Illusion Tranquille a political essay criticizing Quebec's economic system, in which advocates of libertarianism are interviewed. The film was released to Quebec theatres in November 2006.
• In 2007, she represented the ADQ within the working group to redirect funding from Quebec's public health system in favour of privatization.^[5] Chaired by Claude Castonguay,^[6] this working group has seen its main conclusions rejected by the Quebec minister of health at the time, Philippe Couillard.^[7]
• Since 2009, she is featured in a special segment on Wednesdays at noon on the Dupont le midi show on CHOI-FM.
• In fall 2009, she advised ADQ leadership candidate Éric Caire.
• In the summer of 2010, she participated in the creation of Réseau Liberté-Québec, a nonprofit libertarian organization aiming to network and consolidate the right-wing in Quebec. She is one of the spokespeople of this movement since its founding.
• In November 2011, she released her first essay, Pour en finir avec le Gouvernemaman.^[8] This essay is, according to Marcotte, a continuation of l'Illusion Tranquille.

Publications

• L'Illusion Tranquille, 72 minute long documentary criticizing the "Quebec model" ;
• Pour en finir avec le Gouvernemaman,^[9] a 198 page long political essay.

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