Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral (born June 6, 1938) is a

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nurse, professor and politician. Dalphond-Gurial was a

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by training and later a professor of nursing. She was first elected to the

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as a

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MP for the riding of

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in the 1993 federal election. She served as

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Deputy

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from 1994 to 1996, Chief BQ Whip from 1996 to 1997 and again as Deputy Whip until 2000. She also served in the BQ shadow cabinet as Citizenship and Immigration Critic from 2000 to 2004. She did not run in the 2004 federal election.

Electoral record (partial)

External links

The Politics of Empathy
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