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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Raymond Lavigne
- Raymond Lavigne (born November 16, 1945) is a former Canadian senator and businessman, and a former Member of Parliament (MP). Lavigne first ran as a Liberal candidate for the House of Commons of Canada in the Quebec riding of Verdun—Saint-Paul at the 1988 election but was unsuccessful.
- He successfully contested the riding in the 1993 election.
- He was re-elected as the MP for the riding, with altered boundaries, in the 1997 and 2000 federal elections.
- He served until he was appointed to the Canadian Senate on March 26, 2002. He was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to make his riding available for Liza Frulla, a former Quebec cabinet minister.
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