Carole Lavallée (January 23, 1954 – March 26, 2021L’ex-députée bloquiste Carole Lavallée est décédée
) was a

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politician.

Biography

Lavallée was born in

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. A businesswoman, communication consultant, communicator, and a journalist, she was first elected to the

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in the

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. She was elected in the riding of

Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert (formerly known as Saint-Hubert) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. Its population in 2001 was 99,755. Geography This South ...

for the

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defeating the Liberal candidate, Marc Savard by about 13,000 votes. She was the Bloc's critic to the Minister of Labour until she was defeated in the 2011 Federal Election by

Djaouida Sellah Djaouida Sellah () is a Canadian politician. Sellah represented the riding of Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert in the House of Commons from 2011 to 2015. Following her tenure in parliament, she served as president of the New Democratic Party of Quebec ...

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