Anne Minh-Thu Quach MP |
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Minh-Thu Quach in October 2016
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Member of Parliament | |
Assumed office 2015 |
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Preceded by | riding created |
Constituency | Salaberry—Suroît |
In office 2011–2015 |
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Preceded by | Claude DeBellefeuille |
Succeeded by | riding abolished |
Constituency | Beauharnois—Salaberry |
Personal details | |
Born |
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec |
August 14, 1982
Political party | New Democratic Party |
Spouse(s) | Mathieu Dube (m. 2013) |
Anne Minh-Thu Quach, MP (born August 14, 1982 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Salaberry—Suroît as a member of the New Democratic Party.
Quach has received a diploma in health sciences from the Cégep de Valleyfield in 2001 and a bachelor's degree in secondary education from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2005.
She taught French at École Edgar-Hébert for five years and another short stint from August 2010 to May 2011 at École Baie-St-François. Very active in the Syndicat de l'enseignement de Champlain, the regional teachers union that includes Longueuil, she served for three years on its executive committee and represented it on the general council of the Centrale des Syndicats du Québec, the union central that includes over 100,000 teachers and about 75,000 other employees in health, social services, community, culture and recreation.
She is one of three Vietnamese Canadians to have been elected to the House of Commons, following Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac and alongside Hoang Mai.
Quach speaks French and English. She is married and has a daughter who was born in 2014.