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Legault would go on to become Premier of Quebec in 2018."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1954","date":"1954"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Chicoutimi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952269"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Canada","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Coalition Avenir Québec","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2348226"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Laval University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1067935"},{"text":"University of Sherbrooke","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2579532"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Member of the Order of Canada","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15278101","date":"1994"},{"text":"Knight of the National Order of Quebec","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15463524","date":"1997"},{"text":"Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62592341","date":"1997"},{"text":"honorary doctorate of Concordia University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86458856","date":"1999-06"},{"text":"honorary doctor of the Université du Québec à Montréal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91123256","date":"1996-10-25"},{"text":"honorary doctorate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11415564","date":"2010"},{"text":"honorary doctorate at the Laval University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51527076","date":"2000"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sirois","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Charles Sirois born?","a":"Charles Sirois was born on 1954 in Chicoutimi."},{"q":"Where did Charles Sirois study?","a":"Charles Sirois was educated at Laval University, University of Sherbrooke."}],"related":[{"name":"Changpeng Zhao","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/changpeng-zhao"},{"name":"Daryl Katz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/daryl-katz"},{"name":"Galen Weston","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/galen-weston"},{"name":"Jeffrey Skoll","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jeffrey-skoll"},{"name":"Jim Pattison","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jim-pattison"},{"name":"Joseph Lubin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-lubin"},{"name":"Joseph Tsai","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-tsai"},{"name":"Lawrence Stroll","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lawrence-stroll"},{"name":"Li Ka-shing","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing"},{"name":"Stewart Butterfield","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/stewart-butterfield"},{"name":"Drake","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/drake"},{"name":"Arthur Irving","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-irving"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Charles Sirois","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sirois","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q2960237","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960237","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Charles Sirois, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Charles Sirois\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/charles-sirois. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-15","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/charles-sirois","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/charles-sirois","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/charles-sirois?lang=ne"}}