Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Suzanne Fortin-Duplessis | |
Birth Date: | 1940 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Chicoutimi, Quebec |
Party: | Progressive Conservative → Conservative |
Office1: | Member of Parliament for Louis-Hébert |
Term Start1: | 1984 |
Term End1: | 1993 |
Predecessor1: | Dennis Dawson |
Successor1: | Philippe Paré |
Office2: | Senator from Quebec (Rougemont) |
Term Start2: | 14 January 2009 |
Term End2: | 30 June 2015 |
Predecessor2: | Michael Fortier |
Successor2: | Marie-Françoise Mégie |
Spouse: | Maurice Duplessis[1] |
Suzanne Fortin-Duplessis (born 30 June 1940) is a Canadian retired Senator and former Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. She was a teacher by profession.
She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Quebec City followed by studies at Université Laval where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree for visual arts with an educational psychology certificate. Fortin-Duplessis became a teacher after this.
She was the first female elected municipal councillor in Sainte-Foy, Quebec in 1981.[2]
Fortin-Duplessis represented the Quebec riding of Louis-Hébert where she was first elected in the 1984 federal election and re-elected in 1988, becoming part of Brian Mulroney's governing party during the 33rd and 34th Canadian Parliaments.
Fortin-Duplessis left federal politics after her defeat in the 1993 federal election by Philippe Paré of the Bloc Québécois.
Both Fortin-Duplessis and former colleague Pierre H. Vincent managed the Conservative campaign in Quebec in the federal election of 2008.[3]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Fortin-Duplessis to the Senate on 22 December 2008.[4] She retired on 30 June 2015 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.