[2] Georges Anglade was a founder of the Université du Québec and a longtime geography professor there, as well as a special advisor to Haitian presidents Jean-Bertrand Aristide and René Préval.

[3] Mireille Neptune Anglade completed a PhD in economics and worked for NATO monitoring women's rights in Haiti.

[8] Anglade served in the cabinet of Philippe Couillard as the minister of economic development, innovation and export trade from 2016 to 2018.

This made Anglade the first person of Haitian descent, and the second black woman, to exercise a ministerial function in Quebec.

[9] In 2017, Anglade was named Deputy Premier of Quebec, holding that office until the Liberal government's defeat in the 2018 election.

[11] She ran on a platform of returning the party to the Quebec nationalism within a framework of federalism associated with previous leaders Robert Bourassa and Jean Lesage.

[citation needed] Anglade has served on the Board of Directors of several organizations including the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, the United Way of Canada, and the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine.