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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Yolande Thibeault
- Yolande Thibeault (born October 8, 1939 in Montreal, Quebec) is a journalist and politician in Quebec, Canada.
- She was elected a Member of Parliament of the House of Commons of Canada for the Saint-Lambert Riding in the 1997 general election.
- She was re-elected in the 2000 election with considerable majority over other candidates. She is a former freelance journalist for the Canadian Press.
- She also volunteered as assistant to the Chief Organizer of the NO committee in Saint-Lambert during the 1995 Quebec referendum, and was a volunteer on the YES committee during the 1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum.
- She served as Co-Chair for Jacques Saada's federal election campaign in the 1993 election, and was "city leader" for the Quebec Liberal Party 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 Prime Minister'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 Cameroonian-born sovereigntist Maka Kotto of the Bloc Québecois.
- Thibault's defeat was remarkable both because the riding had been considered a "Liberal fortress", and because of her large majority in 1997.
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