Yolande Thibeault (born October 8, 1939) is a Canadian politician and journalist who was elected a member of Parliament of the

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for the Saint-Lambert Riding in the 1997 general election. She was re-elected in the 2000 election with considerable majority over other candidates. Thibeault was born on October 8, 1939, in

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, Canada. She is a former

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journalist for the

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. She also volunteered as assistant to the Chief Organizer of the NO committee in Saint-Lambert during the

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, and was a volunteer on the YES committee during the 1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum. She served as Co-Chair for

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's federal election campaign in the 1993 election, and was "city leader" for the

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in Saint-Lambert for the 1994 provincial election. During her first mandate as Member of Parliament (MP), she was assistant deputy chair of the Committees of the Whole House. For her second term, she was vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, a member of the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities, chair of the

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's caucus Task Force on Seniors, chair of the Canada-Germany Friendship Group, chair of the Canada-Cyprus Friendship Group, executive member of the Canada-France Inter-Parliamentary Association, and executive member of Canada-Africa Parliamentary Group. She won the Liberal nomination for Saint-Lambert in 2004 against Carole Marcil. She was subsequently defeated in the election of 2004, losing by 5,370 votes to

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ian-born sovereigntist

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of the Bloc Québecois. Thibault's defeat was remarkable because the riding had been considered a "Liberal fortress."

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Biography on the Liberal Party website.
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