Former Liberal minister Martin Coiteux returns to the PLQ
Posted October 2, 2025 10:31 am.
Former Couillard-era Liberal minister Martin Coiteux is back with the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP).
Coiteux has been appointed chair of the National Policy Commission, replacing André Pratte.
PLQ President Rafael Primeau-Ferraro made the announcement on Wednesday evening. He said that the former minister “will play a leading role in developing ideas” for the next Quebec general election in 2026.
In 2014, Coiteux was part of former Premier Philippe Couillard’s economic trio, along with former Finance Minister Carlos Leitao and the late Economy Minister Jacques Daoust.
They were often criticized for the budget restrictions imposed by the government at the time—even the current parliamentary leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, Marwah Rizqy, asked the party to apologize for this period of fiscal austerity.
Coiteux then served as Minister of Public Security and Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy until 2018. He did not run in the 2018 election that brought the Coalition Avenir Québec to power.
At a press conference on Thursday morning, Liberal MNA Madwa-Nika Cadet declined to comment on Rizqy’s remarks at the time, but she highlighted Coiteux’s qualities.
“He is one of Quebec’s greatest economic minds and an extremely competent individual,” she argued. “He is someone who has enabled us to restore public finances.”
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
