Monique Bégin
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Monique Bégin | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Health and Welfare | |
| In office March 3, 1980 – September 16, 1984 | |
| Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau John Turner |
| Preceded by | David Crombie |
| Succeeded by | Jake Epp |
| In office September 16, 1977 – June 3, 1979 | |
| Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Marc Lalonde |
| Succeeded by | David Crombie |
| Minister of National Revenue | |
| In office September 14, 1976 – September 15, 1977 | |
| Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Bud Cullen |
| Succeeded by | Joseph-Philippe Guay |
| Member of Parliament for Saint-Michel | |
| In office October 30, 1972 – May 22, 1979 | |
| Preceded by | Victor Forget |
| Succeeded by | Thérèse Killens |
| Member of Parliament for Saint-Léonard—Anjou | |
| In office May 22, 1979 – July 9, 1984 | |
| Preceded by | first member |
| Succeeded by | Alfonso Gagliano |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 1, 1936 Rome, Italy |
| Died | September 8, 2023 (aged 87) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Occupation | Administrator sociologist |
| Website | Parliament of Canada biography |
Monique Bégin PC CC FRSC (March 1, 1936 – September 8, 2023) was a Canadian academic and politician.
Early life
[edit]Bégin was born in Rome to a Canadian-born sound engineer Joseph Lucien Bégin (1895–1964) and Belgian-born accountant Marie-Louise Vanhavre (1906–1967)[1][2] and raised in France and Portugal before emigrating to Canada at the end of World War II. She received an MA degree in sociology from the Université de Montréal and a PhD degree from the Sorbonne. She described her early life in Montreal as challenging, but credited community groups and her childhood role as a Girl Guides of Canada member as "sav(ing) her life".[3]
Political career
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Post-politics
[edit]In 1986, she joined the University of Ottawa and Carleton University as the first joint Ottawa-Carleton Chair of Women's Studies. From 1990 to 1997, she was the University of Ottawa's dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and continued teaching as a professor emeritus. From 1993 to 1995, she also served as co-chair of Ontario's Royal Commission on Learning with Gerald Caplan.
In 1997, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Bégin served as the Treasurer for the International Centre for Migration and Health.
In 2015, she was a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case.[4]
In 2018, she published the memoir Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After.[5]
Bégin was elevated to a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2020.[6]
Death
[edit]Monique Bégin died in Ottawa on September 8, 2023, at the age of 87.[7]
Electoral record
[edit]| 1980 Canadian federal election: Saint-Léonard—Anjou | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Monique Bégin | 42,228 | 81.12 | |||||
| New Democratic | Filippo Salvatore | 3,741 | 7.19 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pierre Gauthier | 2,972 | 5.71 | |||||
| Rhinoceros | Pierre Guzzo-Céros | 1,569 | 3.01 | |||||
| Social Credit | Gaétan Bernard | 1,194 | 2.29 | |||||
| Union populaire | U.P. Nelson Bouchard | 260 | 0.50 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Caroline Commandeur-Laloux | 91 | 0.17 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 52,055 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 607 | |||||||
| Turnout | 52,662 | 66.44 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 79,266 | |||||||
| Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-second General Election, 1980. | ||||||||
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| 1979 Canadian federal election: Saint-Leonard-Anjou | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Monique Bégin | 45,582 | ||||||
| Social Credit | Réal Ménard | 5,102 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Luciano Coraggio | 3,556 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Colette Lalancette-Deschamps | 3,105 | ||||||
| Rhinoceros | Joanne Noël | 1,291 | ||||||
| Union populaire | Alice Derome | 268 | ||||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Carole Commandeur-Laloux | 176 | ||||||
| 1974 Canadian federal election: Saint-Michel | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Monique Bégin | 29,822 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pierre Noël | 6,816 | ||||||
| Social Credit | Charles-Eugène Landry | 4,348 | ||||||
| New Democratic | J. Richard Sylvestre | 3,833 | ||||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Anna C. Campagna | 476 | ||||||
| Communist | Gloria Mallaroni | 277 | ||||||
| 1972 Canadian federal election: Saint-Michel | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | Monique Bégin | 23,850 | ||||||
| Social Credit | Charles-Eugène Landry | 8,591 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | J.-Maurice Bergeron | 7,158 | ||||||
| Independent | Robert G. Beale | 4,758 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Hélène Lewis | 4,551 | ||||||
Archives
[edit]There is a Monique Bégin fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bégin, Hon. Monique, P.C., O.C., F.R.S.C., B.A., M.A. | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Hommage à Madame Monique Bégin".
- ^ "Monique Bégin: The feminist trailblazer – Macleans.ca". Macleans.ca. November 7, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ^ Communication, Status of Women Canada. "2015 Recipients Governor General Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case". cfc-swc.gc.ca. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After, by Monique Bégin". Quill & Quire, March 2019.
- ^ "Governor General Announces 114 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". November 26, 2020.
- ^ The Honourable Monique Bégin passes away – 1936–2023
- ^ "Finding aid to Monique Bégin fonds, Library and Archives Canada" (PDF). Retrieved August 31, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Citation for Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Person's Case
- Monique Bégin – Parliament of Canada biography
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