In what year did Charest leave federal politics?
1993
1996
1998
2000
Answer
In 1998, Charest left federal politics after serving as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1993 to 1998. He had been elected to the House of Commons in 1984 and held various cabinet positions in the Mulroney government, including Minister of the Environment and Minister of Industry, Science, and Technology.
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