Angela Vautour (born April 10, 1960) is a former
Canadian
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politician, who represented the
electoral district
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of
Beauséjour—Petitcodiac in the
House of Commons of Canada
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from 1997 to 2000.
Vautour was elected in the
1997 election as a
New Democrat
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, as part of a
Maritime
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breakthrough for the party.
On September 27, 1999, Vautour
crossed the floor
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to join the
Progressive Conservative caucus. She stood for election as a PC candidate in the
2000 election
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, but was defeated by
Liberal
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candidate
Dominic LeBlanc. In 2004, she ran for the newly formed
Conservative Party of Canada
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, but again was defeated.
In 2023, she spoke out against rent increases.
Electoral record
References
External links
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1960 births
Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from New Brunswick
New Democratic Party MPs
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Politicians of Acadian descent
Living people
Women members of the House of Commons of Canada
Women in New Brunswick politics
20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
20th-century Canadian women politicians
21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
21st-century Canadian women politicians
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