Mylène Freeman
| Mylène Freeman | |
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| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel |
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In office May 2, 2011 – October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Mario Laframboise |
| Succeeded by | riding abolished |
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| Born |
March 7, 1989 Stouffville, Ontario |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
Mylène Freeman (born March 7, 1989) was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for the riding of Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel in Quebec. She was elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election after defeating incumbent Mario Laframboise of the Bloc Québécois.
Born in Stouffville, Ontario, she is fluent in both French and English. She grew up fluently bilingual; she is the daughter of an Irish Canadian father and a French Canadian mother.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, where she studied political theory. She was co-president of NDP McGill (the New Democratic Party student group at the university) and coordinator of the university's Women in House program, which has young women shadow female MPs in hopes of fostering their interest in getting involved in politics.
Freeman described her victory in 2011 as "very surreal" when she defeated powerful Bloc Québécois MP Mario Laframboise by 8,000 votes in Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel.
In the 2009 Montreal municipal election, Freeman stood on behalf of Projet Montréal in Outremont as a candidate for borough councillor in Claude-Ryan.
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