Lisette Lapointe (born September 13, 1943 in

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) is a

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, journalist and teacher, who sat in the

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first as a

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MNA and then as an Independent. She is the widow of

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, former

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, Canada. She was first elected to the

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as a candidate for the

in the provincial riding of Crémazie in the 2007 general election. Prior to her entry into politics, following in the footsteps of her husband, Lapointe worked as a teacher at the secondary level. She was also the director of a health and safety organization in the automobile industry, a journalist at a

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newspaper and was the political aide for the Minister of Social Development and the former MNA of L'Assomption. After the 2007 elections, she was named on April 25, 2007 the PQ's critic in

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and

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. On June 6, 2011, Lapointe and caucus mates Louise Beaudoin and Pierre Curzi resigned from the Parti Québécois to sit as independents over the PQ's acceptance of a bill changing the law to permit an agreement between the City of Québec and

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Inc. concerning the construction of an arena in Quebec City. In November 2011, several media outlets reported that she joined the new sovereigntist party

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, led by fellow former PQ caucus member Jean-Martin Aussant. However, while she has bought a membership card from the party, she also retained her membership in the Parti Québécois, and continued to sit as an independent. On March 4, 2012 she announced that she would not run for re-election and left the National Assembly at the September 2012 provincial election. She subsequently served as mayor of Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard from 2013 to 2017.Valérie Maynard
"La mairesse Lisette Lapointe se retirera"
''Accès'', April 18, 2017.

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