Suzanne Duplessis

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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name=Suzanne Fortin-Duplessis

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| birth_date={{birth date and age|df=yes|1940|6|30}}

| birth_place=Chicoutimi, Quebec

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| 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

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| spouse=Maurice Duplessis{{cite web | url=http://parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator_det.asp?senator_id=2819&sortord=N&Language=E&M=M | title=Suzanne Fortin-Duplessis (detailed information) | publisher=Senate of Canada | accessdate=2010-03-15 }}

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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.

Early life

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.

Member of Parliament

She was the first female elected municipal councillor in Sainte-Foy, Quebec in 1981.{{cite web | url=https://www.conservative.ca/EN/1053/108061 | title=Fortin-Duplessis, Suzanne | publisher=Conservative Party of Canada | accessdate=2010-03-15 }}

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.