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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Margaret Delisle
- Margaret Fortier Delisle (born July 4, 1946) is a politician in Quebec, Canada.
- She was a member of the National Assembly (MNA) in the National Assembly of Quebec for the constituency of Jean-Talon.
- She was first elected in 1994, and sat as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
- She was named Minister of Youth Protection and Rehabilitation (Ministre déléguée à la Protection de la jeunesse et à la Réadaptation) on February 18, 2005.
- She is a graduate of Université Laval, and worked as a teacher before entering politics.
- She is the sister of former Conservative Senator Michael Fortier. In 1982, while still working as a teacher, she was elected as a member of the city council of the former city of Sillery (which was amalgamated into Quebec City, in 2002), and became mayor of Sillery in 1985.
- She ran for the National Assembly in 1994, winning by 25 votes, and was re-elected in 1998 by 157 votes and finally in 2003 by a margin of 2500 votes.On February 9, 2007, she announced that she would not run in the 2007 Quebec general election, citing health reasons.
- She suffers from Rheumatoid arthritis.
- Philippe Couillard who changed ridings from Mont-Royal in Montreal, succeeded Delisle for the seat. She was responsible for amendments to Quebec's youth protection legislation to provide a more stable environment for children under the protection of the Quebec child welfare agency, the Direction de la protection de la jeunesse (DPJ).
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