Christiane Gagnon (born April 16, 1948) is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the

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from 1993 to 2011. She is a member of the

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(BQ).

Early life

Gagnon was born in

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. She worked as a real estate agent.

Tenure in Parliament

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1993 federal election as the

candidate in the district of

. She was re-elected in the federal general elections of

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

and

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

. She was defeated in the

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

election by NDP candidate Annick Papillon. She served as the Bloc's caucus chair from 1996 to 1998. She has also been the Bloc's critic of the Status of Women, the Federal Office of Regional Development-Quebec, Housing, Poverty, Canadian Heritage, the

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, and the National Capital Region. She did not participate in the 2015 election. She was a candidate in the 2019 election, which she narrowly lost to the

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incumbent

Jean-Yves Duclos Jean-Yves Duclos (; born 1965) is a Canadian economist and politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Québec since 2015. He previously served as Minister of Families, Children and Social Develop ...

."La ville de Québec, baromètre de la campagne électorale fédérale"
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'' (in French), September 4, 2021

Electoral record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gagnon, Christiane 1948 births Bloc Québécois MPs Women members of the House of Commons of Canada Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Politicians from Saguenay, Quebec Politicians from Quebec City Women in Quebec politics 21st-century Canadian women politicians 21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada