Régine Laurent

Régine Laurent (born 1957) is a Haitian Canadian nurse who from 1980 spent 35 years working at Montreal's Santa-Cabrini Hospital. From 2009 to 2017, as the first black woman to head the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FlQ), the trade union for health services in the Province of Quebec, she successfully negotiated improved conditions for health workers from the provincial government. In May 2019, she was appointed head of Quebec's Special Commission on the Rights of the Child and Youth Protection.

Early life Born on 9 October 1957 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, In 2009, she was elected president of the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec. Laurent was named an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2024.