Maxime Arseneau (born 24 November 1949) is a Canadian radio host and teacher and former Quebec politician.
He represents the Parti Québécois and was a former minister in the cabinets of Former Premiers Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry.
He was later an assistant director in the Department of Continuing Education at the Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles for 10 years.
He would also host a show at CFIM, a community radio station and would be active in politics being the president of the Parti Québécois in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine region twice, while he was the vice-president of the YES committee in the 1995 referendum.
After Bernard Landry replaced Lucien Bouchard as Premier of Quebec, Arseneau was named in 2001 the minister of agriculture, fisheries and food.