Annick Papillon (born May 27, 1980) is a

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politician, who served in the

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from 2011 to 2015. She represented the electoral district of

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as a member of the

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Biography

Papillon was born in

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, and grew up in

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. She earned a BA in public communications, law, and history and pursued advanced studies in journalism at

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. She specialized in international politics and field journalism while studying at the

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, and performed an internship at Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté francophone. Back in Quebec, she volunteered for humanitarian organizations. At the time of her election, she worked for the Institut de la statistique du Québec. Running in her first campaign, she defeated incumbent

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with a margin of 7,709 votes in the

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. Owing largely to its unprecedented success in Quebec, where it won fifty-nine out of seventy-five seats, the NDP won

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status at the federal level for the first time in its history. Papillon was one of fifty-eight Quebec New Democrats elected for the first time in 2011. She endorsed

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in the

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. In the

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, Papillon lost her seat to

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References

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