Lise Zarac (born August 22, 1950 in

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politician, currently sitting on the Montreal City Council. She represented the federal electoral district of

LaSalle—Émard LaSalle—Émard was a federal electoral district in the Canadian province of Quebec that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. Its population in 2001 was 99,767. The MP from 1988 to 2008 was Paul Martin, who s ...

from

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until 2011 as a member of the

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., Accessed 14 March 2018 She was defeated by

Hélène LeBlanc Hélène LeBlanc (born March 27, 1958) is a Canadian politician. She served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015, representing the riding of LaSalle—Émard as a member of the New Democratic Party. In the official opposition s ...

of the

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in 2011. In

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she turned to municipal politics, and was elected to represent the district of Cecil-P.-Newman in LaSalle on Montreal City Council as part of the local LaSalle party Équipe Barbe Team.

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