Caroline Simard is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 Quebec election, defeating Premier Pauline Marois in her own riding. She represents the riding of Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.Simard's candidacy in the 2014 Quebec election was her first time running for public office. Although she was sometimes accused during the campaign of being the Quebec Liberal Party's paper candidate in Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré, she defeated Marois by 882 votes. Upon taking office, Simard was disappointed to discover that the staff of the former Premier had emptied Marois' constituency offices in the riding of all files, forcing Simard's staff to start from zero recreating files on local issues. Wikipedia