Francine Lalonde, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
About Francine Lalonde
- Francine Lalonde (August 24, 1940 – January 17, 2014) was a politician on the federal (Canada) and provincial (Quebec) levels.
- Prior to being elected she was a lecturer, teacher and unionist. She was minister responsible for the status of women in the Lévesque government from January 16, 1985 until June 5, 1985.
- She resigned following her defeat to Robert Bourassa in the by-election of June 3, 1985 in the electoral district of Bertrand, failing to win a seat in the National Assembly of Quebec. She was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the districts of La Pointe-de-l'Île from 2004 election to 2011, and Mercier from the 1993 election to 2004.
- She has in the past been the Bloc's critic of Human Resources Development and of Industry, and of Foreign Affairs. In June 2005, Lalonde introduced in Parliament a private Bill C-407 that would have legalized assisted suicide in Canada.
- Re-elected in January 2006, she promised to reintroduce her bill to legalize assisted suicide. On September 13, 2010, Lalonde announced she would not be a candidate for re-election following the expiration of her current mandate "because of the re-emergence of my cancer and the need to pursue new treatments".
- She died of cancer on January 17, 2014.
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