US EditionFormer Quebec Deputy Premier Lise Bacon Dies at 91
Lise Bacon was Quebec’s first female deputy premier and held multiple cabinet roles, serving from 1985 to 1994 during a landmark political career.
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Lise Bacon, former Quebec cabinet minister, senator, dead at 91
Lise Bacon, former minister and former deputy premier of Quebec, has passed away.Her death was confirmed on the National Assembly website.Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield in 1934, Bacon became the second woman to be elected to the National Assembly after Claire Kirkland-Casgrain in 1973, having served as president of the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) from 1970 to 1973.
As a second female member of the National Assembly, she held the position from 1985 to 1994 and was a senator in Ottawa.
Lise Bacon, a Liberal politician, first woman elected president of a political party in Canada, responsible for several ministries during the 1970s, 1980s and until January 1994, died at the age of 91.
The ex-senator and politician, second elected to the National Assembly and first deputy prime minister of Quebec, was 91 years old.
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Le Journal de QuebecShe was the second woman MP in Quebec and the first to be appointed Deputy Prime Minister
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