Annick Papillon
Member of Parliament
for Québec
In office
May 30, 2011 – August 4, 2015
Preceded byChristiane Gagnon
Succeeded byJean-Yves Duclos
Personal details
Born (1980-05-27) May 27, 1980
Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Political partyNew Democratic
Residence(s)Quebec City, Quebec

Annick Papillon (born May 27, 1980) is a Canadian politician, who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015.[1] She represented the electoral district of Québec as a member of the New Democratic Party.[2]

Biography

Papillon was born in Rimouski, Quebec, 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 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. Owing largely to its unprecedented success in Quebec, where it won fifty-nine out of seventy-five seats, the NDP won Official Opposition status at the federal level for the first time in its history. Papillon was one of fifty-eight Quebec New Democrats elected for the first time in 2011.

She endorsed Tom Mulcair in the 2012 New Democratic Party leadership election.

In the 2015 election, Papillon lost her seat to Liberal Jean-Yves Duclos.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 2011 General Election Results: Québec. Elections Canada.
  2. ↑ Annick Papillon – Parliament of Canada biography
  3. 1 2 Porter, Isabelle (30 April 2011), "Qui sont ces néodémocrates à l'assaut de Québec?", Le Devoir (in French), Montréal, retrieved May 3, 2011
  4. 1 2 3 4 New Democratic Party. "Annick Papillon". Archived from the original on April 19, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
  5. ↑ Boivin, Simon (3 May 2011), "La région de Québec vire au orange", Le Soleil (in French), Quebec City, retrieved June 13, 2018
  6. ↑ "Conservatives more than double seat count in Quebec". CBC News. October 19, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.


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