Yolande Thibeault
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Yolande Thibeault (born in 1939, Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec journalist and politician. She was elected a Member of Parliament of the Canadian House of Commons for the St-Lambert Riding in the 1997 general election. She was reelected in 2000 with considerable advance 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 1993 and was City Leader for the Quebec Liberal Party in Saint-Lambert for the 1994 Quebec election.
During her first mandate as Ottawa MP, she was assistant deputy chair of the committees of the whole house. For her second, 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 St-Lambert in 2004 against Carole Marcil. She was subsequently defeated in the election of 2004 by the Bloc Québécois candidate. Her sound defeat of 5370 votes to African-born sovereigntist Maka Kotto was seen as quite a feat because of the Liberal fortress status of the riding and her previous advance in 1997.
| Preceded by: district created in 1996, see Longueuil |
Members of Parliament from Saint-Lambert | Succeeded by: Maka Kotto, Bloc Quebecois |
See Also
External link
- Biography on the Liberal Party website. (http://www.liberal.ca/tmbio_e.aspx?id=24065)Template:Canada-politician-stub