Annick Papillon

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Annick Papillon
MP
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Québec
Taking office
May 30, 2011
Succeeding Christiane Gagnon
Personal details
Born (1980-05-27) May 27, 1980 (age 31)
Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Political party New Democratic Party

Annick Papillon (born May 27, 1980 in Rimouski, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election.[1] She represents the electoral district of Québec as a member of the New Democratic Party.[2]

Biography

Papillon was born in Rimouski and grew up in Quebec City. She earned a BA in public communications, law, and history[3] and pursued advanced studies in journalism at Université Laval.[4] She specialized in international politics and field journalism while studying at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and performed an internship at Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté francophone.[4] Back in Quebec, she volunteered for humanitarian organizations.[4] At the time of her first election, she worked for the Institut de la statistique du Québec.[3][4]

Running in her first campaign, she defeated incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Christiane Gagnon[5] with a margin of 7,709 votes in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

She also endorses Thomas Mulcair in the New Democratic Party leadership election, 2012

References

  1. ^ 2011 General Election Results: Québec. Elections Canada.
  2. ^ Papillon, Annick - Parliamentarian File, Parliament of Canada
  3. ^ a b (French) Porter, Isabelle (30 April 2011), "Qui sont ces néodémocrates à l'assaut de Québec?", Le Devoir (Montréal), http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/elections-2011/322340/qui-sont-ces-neodemocrates-a-l-assaut-de-quebec, retrieved May 3, 2011 
  4. ^ a b c d New Democratic Party. "Annick Papillon". http://annickpapillon.ndp.ca/. Retrieved May 3, 2011. 
  5. ^ (French) Boivin, Simon (3 May 2011), "La région de Québec vire au orange", Le Soleil (Quebec City), http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/dossiers/elections-federales/201105/03/01-4395562-la-region-de-quebec-vire-au-orange.php, retrieved May 3, 2011 



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