Francine Lalonde (August 24, 1940 – January 17, 2014) was a Canadian
politician
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who served on both the provincial and federal levels. Prior to being elected, she was a lecturer, teacher, and
unionist.
She was minister responsible for the status of women in the
Lévesque government from January 16, 1985 until June 5, 1985. She resigned following her defeat to
Robert Bourassa in the by-election of June 3, 1985 in the electoral district of
Bertrand
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, failing to win a seat in the
National Assembly of Quebec
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.
She was a
Bloc Québécois member of the
House of Commons of Canada
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, representing the
district
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s of
La Pointe-de-l'Île
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from
2004 election to 2011, and
Mercier
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from the
1993 election to 2004. She has in the past been the Bloc's critic of Human Resources Development and of Industry, and of Foreign Affairs.
In June 2005, Lalonde introduced in Parliament a private Bill C-407 that would have legalized assisted suicide in Canada. Re-elected in January 2006, she promised to reintroduce her bill to legalize assisted suicide.
On September 13, 2010, Lalonde announced she would not be a candidate for re-election following the expiration of her current mandate "because of the re-emergence of my cancer and the need to pursue new treatments". She died of cancer on January 17, 2014.
"Francine Lalonde, retired Bloc MP, dies of cancer at 73"
CBC News
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, January 17, 2014.
Electoral record
See also
*1985 Parti Québécois leadership election
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*Politics of Quebec
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*Quebec sovereignty movement
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1940 births
2014 deaths
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