Board of directors

Mr. Claude Séguin has over 40 years of experience in finance. Until March 2018, he was an advisor to the founder and executive chairman of the board at CGI Inc. From 2003 to 2016, he held the positions of Senior Vice President – Corporate Development and Strategic Investments, and Senior Vice President – Finance and Strategic Investments. Previously, Mr. Séguin was President of CDP Capital – Private Placements and Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Téléglobe Inc.

Mr. Séguin has held several positions within the Quebec public service, including Deputy Minister of Finance, Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance, Director of Planning, and Deputy Director of Social Programs at the Treasury Board.

Mr. Séguin holds a bachelor's degree in applied economics from HEC Montréal. He obtained a master's and a doctorate in public administration from Syracuse University. Mr. Séguin also completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Séguin has served on the board of directors of Centraide of Greater Montreal, the Montreal Heart Institute, and the Centraide Foundation of Greater Montreal, the latter as chairman of the board. He currently serves on the board of directors of Hydro-Québec, HEC Montréal, and the Fondation des 24 heures Tremblant. He has also participated in numerous fundraising campaigns for social, cultural, hospital, and educational organizations. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since April 13, 2017.

Magali Picard was elected president of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) in January 2023, at the 33rd convention. She was previously vice-president of the FTQ and Fonds de solidarité FTQ, national vice-president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), and president of the Quebec Council.

Ms. Picard is a proud member of the Wendat Nation and an advocate for Indigenous and women's rights. Throughout her career, she has fought for greater social justice for workers so that everyone may live in dignity. She began her career as a union activist in 1999 at the PSAC-affiliated Union of Veterans' Affairs Employees (UVAE), where she was president of Local 10042. Her remarkable skills and enthusiasm set her apart, and she quickly climbed the ranks within the PSAC, an FTQ affiliate.

Ms. Picard is First Vice-Chair of the Fonds FTQ Board of Directors.

She also sits on the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) Canada Council and Executive Committee, and on the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) General Council.

In addition, she is a member of the Comité consultatif du travail et de la main-d'œuvre (CCTM).

Pierre-Maurice Vachon is a well-known personality in the Beauce region where he is both a businessman and a political figure. He has worn several hats, first as CEO, then corporate director, followed by prefect and mayor. To this day, he remains interested in business and management.

Between 1990 and 2003, Mr. Vachon was CEO and chairman of Cartem, a company he helped found in 1977. He served as mayor of Sainte-Marie for 16 years as well as prefect of the Nouvelle-Beauce CMA and president of the Fédération québécoise des municipalités (FQM). Earlier in his career, Mr. Vachon was the manager of production-related administrative services at the family company, Les Gâteaux Vachon, where he remained for 10 years.

Mr. Vachon has been a board member of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since 2005 and a member of the Turnaround Board since 2004. He also serves on the boards of, among others, SSQ General Insurance Company, P.H. Tech and the Fonds régional de solidarité FTQ – Chaudière-Appalaches.

Pierre-Maurice Vachon holds a business administration degree from Université Laval.

Mr. Mario Basilico is an influential leader in the construction industry and the labor movement in Quebec. With a rich and diverse career, he plays a key role in advancing workers' rights and improving working conditions in the construction industry in Quebec. He began his career as a tiler in 1984, working for various employers in the construction industry. His commitment and dedication quickly propelled him into leadership roles.

In 1991, he was elected vice-president of the Union of Tilers and Related Trades, and in 1994, he became its president. In 1995, Mr. Mario Basilico took the position of general manager of the Union of Tilers and Related Trades, affiliated with FTQ-Construction. That same year, he joined the board of directors of the Joint Committee on Construction Materials of Quebec, a joint committee for the marble industry.

In 2005, Mr. Mario Basilico obtained the international charter of the Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen without being affiliated with the Building Trades, a first in North America that has never been repeated to this day.

In 2011, Mr. Basilico joined the executive committee of FTQ-Construction, where he held various leadership positions, including 1st vice-president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer, until May 2025. During his union career, he participated, as a union member, in several construction industry negotiations for the residential sector and also represented his association at the CCQ on various committees representing his trade.

In May 2025, Mr. Basilico was appointed vice-president of the FTQ, and in June 2025, he took on new responsibilities by becoming general manager of FTQ-Construction, where he represents and manages a union association of over 80,000 members. He is involved in all matters affecting the construction industry, including labor relations, health and safety, and financial management.

Mr. Mario Basilico has also been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since June 2025.

Mr. Claude Bergeron is a lawyer, corporate director, and advisor. He worked for over 35 years at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ("CDPQ"), including 30 years in senior management positions. He was Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer from 2009 to 2023, in addition to serving as Head of Depositor Relations from 2018 to 2023. Previously, he was Vice President of Legal Affairs and Secretary from 1993 to 2009. He received the National Excellence Award post-ZSA for his role in restructuring the Canadian commercial paper market during the 2008 financial crisis.

Before that, he worked at the Quebec Ministry of Revenue as a litigation lawyer, before being appointed Deputy Director and Division Chief.

Mr. Bergeron holds a law degree from the University of Montreal and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1979. He later completed studies in administrative sciences at HEC Montreal in 1991. He holds an International MBA in Financial Services and Insurance from The Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Mr. Bergeron has been invited for several years to economic, academic, accounting, and financial circles as an expert and speaker on risk management. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since May 23, 2025.

Denis Bolduc is General Secretary of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ). He sits on the FTQ Executive Committee and has been a Fonds de solidarité FTQ Board member since June 2016.

Mr. Bolduc served as President of the Québec division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) from June 2016 to December 2019, and was a member of the CUPE National Executive Board and President of CUPE Québec Local 1450 from 2006 to 2011. He was also President of CUPE Québec’s Conseil provincial du secteur des communications (CPSC) from March to May 2011 and General Secretary of CUPE Québec from May 2011 to June 2016.

A graduate of Cégep de Jonquière, where he studied media art and technology, Mr. Bolduc worked as a journalist at the CKCV-AM radio station in Québec City from 1985 to 1986, then at Le Journal de Québec from 1986 to 2011. He was the editor of the free daily newspaper Média Matin from 2007 to 2008.

The first woman to be appointed President and CEO of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Janie C. Béïque focuses her actions on three main themes: sustainable development, retirement planning and what she likes to call “societal returns.” A lawyer by training, she has worked in business and corporate law and in the investment industry. Janie’s expertise has been recognized by her peers as well as by the business and political communities. She has twice been named as an Innovation Leader by the Government of Canada. Holder of a law degree from Université de Montréal, Janie was called to the Québec Bar in 1991 and is entered on the Roll of the Order of Advocates. In 2015, she earned an MBA from Georgetown University in the U.S. and from ESADE University in Spain. Janie is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and sits on the boards of Groupe CH, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal and the Société GALOPH, a non-profit organization. She was co-chair of the 50th Centraide of Greater Montréal fundraising campaign.

Mr. Loïc Breton has been the president of the Syndicat des employées et employés professionnels-les et de bureau (SEPB–Québec) since 2016 and is responsible for Education. Involved in the union movement since 1991, he has held various positions within SEPB, including president of SEPB-574, recruiter, union trainer, and representative of his organization at various union bodies.

He served as the local representative of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ for over 30 years, a position he left in December 2024. Mr. Breton holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from McGill University.

Since 2017, he has been serving as the employer representative on the SEPB-Québec Retirement Committee, where he has participated in the revision and development of new investment policies for the plan. Additionally, he serves as vice-president of the national executive of SEPB-COPE and has contributed to the development of the investment policy for the Canadian union's defense fund. Mr. Breton has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since September 19, 2020.

Daniel Cloutier is the Québec director of Unifor. From July 2014 to April 2022, when he was elected Québec director, he served as the union’s national representative for health and safety and the environment, as well as coordinator of the Service de défense des accidentés du travail. Before that, he was the service representative of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), one of the founding unions of Unifor. He subsequently served in various capacities, including as local president. 

Daniel Cloutier’s union career began in 1990 at Purolator Courier.  Upon being hired by the CEP as a service representative in 1997, Mr. Cloutier was initially assigned to the petrochemical industry, representing groups at Petro-Canada, Petromont, Olin and Hercules. He was also put in charge of several groups in other sectors, including the media, where he represented members at the CTV station. This broad range of experiences gave him the opportunity to work in several regions of Québec as well as in the rest of Canada. 

During his 17 years of representing members, he has led numerous negotiations, including several at the national level. Throughout the years, he has also defended multiple files before the Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité au travail (CNESST), arbitration boards and the Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT). 

Mr. Cloutier is a Board member of Envirocompétence and Multiprévention, an occupational health and safety association. He has taken part in several international missions to Belgium, Haiti and Algeria, where he participated in, among others, bargaining and market economy workshops.  Daniel Cloutier joined the Fonds de solidarité FTQ Board of Directors in May 2022. 

Mrs. Anouk Collet has held the position of Senior Advisor to the National President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) since May 2016. She also serves as Vice-President at the FTQ office and sits on several of its committees, including those for education and grievance arbitration. She also represents the UFCW as Vice-President on the Canadian Labour Congress Council.

She began her career as Assistant to the Canadian Director of the SVTI (Clothing, Textile and Other Industries Union), a position she held from 1997 to 2001. She then coordinated the legal service at UFCW Local 500 from 2001 to 2008 before being appointed Regional Director and National Representative for UFCW Canada from 2008 to 2016.

Holder of a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Montreal and a master's degree in industrial relations. She has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1991. Mrs. Collet has represented the FTQ since 2014 at the deliberative assembly of the Labour Market Partners Commission. She has also been sitting on the UNI Global Union Women's Committee since 2023.

She served on the board of directors of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada from 2012 to 2018, in addition to sitting on their governance committee. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since November 29, 2013.

Mr. Côté has over thirty years of extensive experience as a heavy machinery operator at Transports Routiers of the city of Alma. Active in the union environment since 2008, his involvement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has led him to hold several important positions.

Since 2011, he has been the president of Local 2541, the union of white-collar and blue-collar workers of the city of Alma, affiliated with CUPE, and sits on several committees (pension fund, labor relations, collective agreement negotiation, etc.). Also elected president of the Provincial Council of the Municipal Sector of CUPE-Quebec in October 2023, he coordinates the union action of local sections in Quebec. Finally, since May 2023, Mr. Côté has held the position of vice-president of the municipal sector on the board of directors of CUPE-Quebec.

In addition to his union duties, Mr. Côté has been acting since 2010 as the local representative of the Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs et des travailleuses du Québec (FTQ). He has been a member of the board of directors of the FTQ Solidarity Fund since January 2025.

Mrs. Sylvie Demers is corporate director, as well as a trainer at the College of Corporate Directors at Laval University in governance on boards of directors.

Until November 2023, she held the position of President of the Management, TD Financial Group, Quebec region, in addition to acting as Senior Vice President of the branch network. Previously, she served as Vice President, Strategic Initiatives within the organization. From 2011 to 2013, as President, Affinity Market at TD Insurance, she coordinated activities and services nationwide. She joined TD in 1985. Until 2011, she held several management positions in various services, including Commercial Banking and Securities, Corporate Banking and Retail Banking, as well as Regional Vice President and Market Leader at TD Waterhouse, Private Client Services for Eastern Canada. She has held various roles such as financing for private companies as well as financing for public companies. Mrs. Demers has also carried out mandates in fund management, treasury and derivatives, in addition to being Vice President of a branch network, Montreal District, Centre-Sud.

Mrs. Demers holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from HEC Montreal with a specialization in finance and marketing. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since October 17, 2024.

Éric Gingras has been President of the Centrale des syndicats (CSQ) since June 2021. From 2005 to 2021, he held various positions, including President of the Champlain union and Vice-President of its Marie-Victorin local. From 1996 to 2004, he taught grade school pupils from disadvantaged and multi-ethnic backgrounds at the Centre de services scolaires Marie-Victorin. 

Mr. Gingras has been active in the labour movement since 1997. His responsibilities at the CSQ include bargaining at the national level, inter-union relations, public policy, pay equity, communications and activities on the international scene. 

Mr. Gingras is a member of the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail and the Comité consultatif du travail et de la main-d'œuvre. 

He holds a bachelor's degree in education from Université de Montréal. Éric Gingras joined the Fonds de solidarité FTQ Board of Directors in October 2022.

Mr. Denis Labrèche has over 30 years of experience in business valuation, financial litigation, and mergers and acquisitions across various sectors. From 1987 to 2012, he was a partner at Ernst & Young, where he had the opportunity to participate in several significant mandates and operations, as well as act as an expert witness in court for numerous cases.

He has also been entrusted with numerous mandates related to venture capital for the Government of Quebec, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and the Société générale de financement du Québec. He has served as a financial advisor to major companies such as Provigo, Metro, RONA, Bell Canada, and the Canadian Red Cross.

Throughout his career, he has been very active, presenting conferences and leading numerous seminars on business valuation and financing, in addition to writing articles on the subject that have appeared in Commerce magazine and the La Presse newspaper. He has served on the boards of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators and Réseau Capital. Mr. Labrèche is an expert in business valuation (EEE-1984) and a chartered professional accountant. He was on the honor roll for the chartered accountant exam in 1978.

Mr. Labrèche has served on the boards of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators and Réseau Capital. He has actively participated in several fundraising campaigns for non-profit organizations, including Centraide, the Centre Immaculée-Conception, and other organizations. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since September 28, 2013.

Nicolas Lapierre, the Quebec Director of the United Steelworkers (District 5), previously served as Assistant Director from April 2023 to May 2025. He is Vice-President of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institut national des mines.

Originally from Natashquan, in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Mr. Nicolas Lapierre began his union involvement with Local 6254 while employed by the Wabush Mining Company, now known as the Société ferroviaire et portuaire de Pointe-Noire.

He held several positions within his local union starting in 2000, before being appointed union representative in 2009. In 2016, he was named Regional Coordinator of the Sept-Îles office for the Côte-Nord, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Gaspésie, and Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions, until his appointment as Assistant Director in 2023. He has notably been part of the Boards of Directors of the Comité sectoriel de la main-d'œuvre des Mines and the Association paritaire pour la santé et la sécurité du travail du secteur minier.

Mr. Nicolas Lapierre has led several major negotiations with multinationals such as ArcelorMittal and Rio Tinto. He also coordinated the campaign for better pension protection in case of company bankruptcy, which resulted in the adoption of a law to that effect in 2023.

Mr. Nicolas Lapierre has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since June 2025.

Mrs. Katia Marquier has over 25 years of experience in accounting, taxation, strategic planning, and corporate governance. Since February 2017, she has been an executive at Fednav, an international maritime carrier, where she was responsible for financial, accounting, and tax management for 2 years before being appointed Chief Financial Officer in January 2020. Previously, she was Corporate Controller and Director of Regulatory Accounting at Gaz Métro (now Énergir) and Valener, as well as Senior Manager at KPMG.

Mrs. Marquier holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and a graduate diploma in professional accounting from HEC Montréal. She was a lecturer there from 2005 to 2010. In addition to holding the title of Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) of Quebec, she has a university certificate in corporate governance from the College of Corporate Directors (ASC). She has also served on the boards of directors and audit committees of public companies, notably Groupe Sportscene until its privatization.

Mrs. Marquier was a member of the board of directors, the executive committee, and chair of the audit committee of the Cancer Research Society for 8 years. She was also involved in the Young Leaders Circle of the Ste-Justine Hospital Foundation for the Winter Triathlon for 6 years. She has been involved with the Marie-Vincent Foundation for the CFO Dinner since 2018. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since October 15, 2022.

Mrs. Sylvie Nelson was the first woman elected as president of the Syndicat québécois des employées et des employés de service, section locale 298 (FTQ) (SQEES-298), a position she has held since 2017. In the same year, she was appointed vice-president at the FTQ office and vice-president of the International Union of Service Employees (UIES).

Hired in 1997 at SQEES-298, she has held several positions within the organization. Initially a union advisor, she became responsible for training services in 2010 and was appointed secretary-general of the organization in 2011. In this role, she was responsible for training services, the political action committee, the intercultural committee, and mobilization, in addition to managing administrative staff.

Mrs. Nelson completed studies in Specialized Education before engaging in the union movement. She coordinated major issues, including salary relativity and pay equity in both the public and private sectors. In 2016, she was elected vice-president at the FTQ office, one of the three positions reserved for women. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since October 26, 2017.

Mr. Sébastien Paquette is Regional Executive Vice-President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – Quebec (PSAC-Quebec). His professional career has been marked by strong union involvement since 2013.

First involved in the Association for Union Solidarity of the École Polytechnique (ASSEP), he has been a member of the Quebec council of PSAC-Quebec since 2017. He serves as Chair of the Finance Committee and as a member of the Constitution Review Committee.

From 2017 to 2025, Mr. Sébastien Paquette also held the position of coordinator at the Quebec Council of University Unions and has been a certified trainer since 2021. Finally, during his academic career, Mr. Paquette worked notably as a laboratory manager and research associate at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Mr. Paquette is committed to his community. As a citizen, he has been involved in political life since 2017. He holds a specialized bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Montreal and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal. He has been a member of the board of directors of the of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since April 2025.

Mr. Roger A. Renaud is a corporate director with over 12 years of experience as the president of investment management companies. He also has extensive experience as a corporate director in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia.

He served as president in Canada and then as global chief operating officer at Manulife Asset Management. He actively participated in the merger of Standard Life Investments' Canadian operations with Manulife Asset Management and chaired the Global Operations Committee. For over 20 years, he held various significant positions, including president at Standard Life Investments Inc. and senior vice president, Group Savings and Retirement at Standard Life of Canada.

Mr. Renaud holds a bachelor's degree in actuarial science and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He also completed an executive development program at Harvard Business School. Additionally, he holds a certificate in artificial intelligence from MIT School of Management, a certificate in sustainable finance from the University of Cambridge, a certificate in diversity, equity, and inclusion from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and a certificate in cybersecurity from Harvard University. He also completed the private market investments program at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Mr. Renaud has served on several boards of non-profit and cultural organizations. For over 10 years, he was also the chairman of the organizing committee for the charitable event Action 21, supporting the Down Syndrome Foundation. Furthermore, he has been a speaker on numerous occasions on topics related to investments and retirement plans in various industry forums. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ since September 29, 2018.