Pierre Descoteaux (16 February 1952 – 9 April 2018)[1] was a Canadian lawyer and politician from Quebec.
He taught law at the Bar school, then at Université du Québec à Montréal and the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières .
He was elected to the National Assembly for the first time in the 2003 Quebec general election, with a narrow margin of 300 votes ahead of Robert Kieffer of Parti Québécois.
He was defeated by Linda Lapointe of the Action Démocratique du Québec in the 2007 Quebec general election.
Descoteaux is a critic of Canadian federalism and has described himself as the most nationalist member of the Liberal caucus.