Annick Papillon (born May 27, 1980) is a

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politician, who served in the

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from 2011 to 2015. She represented the electoral district of

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as a member of the

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Biography

Papillon was born in

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, and grew up in

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. She earned a BA in public communications, law, and history and pursued advanced studies in journalism at

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. She specialized in international politics and field journalism while studying at the

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, and performed an internship at Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté francophone. Back in Quebec, she volunteered for humanitarian organizations. At the time of her election, she worked for the Institut de la statistique du Québec. Running in her first campaign, she defeated incumbent

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with a margin of 7,709 votes in the 2011 Canadian federal election. She endorsed

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in the

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. Papillon was defeated in the 2015 election by

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References

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