Michèle Lamquin-Étheir (born December 12, 1946) is a

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lawyer and former politician, who was a member of the

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from 1997 to 2007. She was a member of the

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caucus. She is married, and the mother of three sons. Born in

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, Lamquin-Étheir was a lawyer in private practice from 1978 to 1986, a member of the complaints examination committee of the

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from 1978 to 1982 and the General Manager of the Provincial Healthcare Users Committee from 1986 to 1997. First elected to the constituency of Bourassa in a

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in 1997, Lamquin-Étheir represented the riding until 2003, when it ceased to exist as a result of redistribution. In that year's provincial election, she was re-elected in the constituency of Crémazie, which she represented until 2007. She was defeated by

Lisette Lapointe Lisette Lapointe (born September 13, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec politician, journalist and teacher, who sat in the Quebec National Assembly first as a Parti Québécois MNA and then as an Independent. She is now mayor of Saint-Adol ...

of the

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in the 2007 election.

Electoral record (incomplete)

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