Michèle Lamquin-Éthier
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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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,
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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 Montreal Police Department 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
by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...
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 the widow of Jacques Pari ...
of the
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in the 2007 election.


Electoral record (incomplete)


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* 1946 births Living people Politicians from Montreal Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Women MNAs in Quebec 20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec 20th-century Canadian women politicians 21st-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec 21st-century Canadian women politicians {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub