Louise Beaudoin
| Louise Beaudoin | |
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Louise Beaudoin during a visit to Chambly.
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| MNA for Rosemont | |
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In office December 8, 2008 – 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Rita Dionne-Marsolais |
| Succeeded by | Jean-François Lisée |
| MNA for Chambly | |
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In office September 12, 1994 – April 29, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Lucienne Robillard |
| Succeeded by | Diane Legault |
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September 26, 1945 Quebec City, Quebec |
| Political party | Parti Québécois → Independent → Parti Québécois |
Louise Beaudoin (born September 26, 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Rosemont in the National Assembly of Quebec as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). She sat as an independent from June 6, 2011 to April 3, 2012. She is best known for her previous tenure as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) of Chambly, from 1994 to 2003, when she occupied various ministerial positions.
Beaudoin earned a master's degree in history from Université Laval and a master's degree in sociology at the Sorbonne. As a student, like many contemporaries, she was associated with Quebec separatists.
In the 1970s, she worked at the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP). She was also director of Claude Morin's office. Posted to the Délégation générale du Québec à Paris from 1984–1985, she was close to René Lévesque in the last years of his life.
Beaudoin was elected as a péquiste in the riding of Chambly in 1994, and re-elected in 1998.
During her time as MNA of Chambly, Beaudoin had several portfolios. At various times she was the minister responsible for the Charter of the French Language, international relations, intergovernmental relations, La Francophonie, Culture and Communications, and globalization. She received some English press coverage for her spirited defence of Bill 101 on an episode of 60 Minutes. Her stringent enforcement of Bill 101 didn't play well with the Anglophone communities in Quebec, and she was famously portrayed as a leather-clad dominatrix by popular Montreal Gazette cartoonist Aislin. On several occasions she has made controversial remarks about culture, claiming, for example, that multiculturalism is a Canadian value but not a Quebec one. With Sheila Copps, the Minister for Canadian Heritage, Beaudoin also worked for the adoption of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, voted on after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The same year, she accused the federal government of lying for not permitting Quebec premier Bernard Landry to participate in the Summit of the Americas.
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