Catherine Pinhas

Catherine Pinhas Mulcair
Born (1955-09-27) 27 September 1955
France
Citizenship
  • Canadian
  • French
Known for Spouse of Leader of the Opposition (2012-2015)
Religion Judaism
Spouse(s) Thomas Mulcair (m. 1976)

Catherine Pinhas Mulcair (born September 27, 1955[1]) is a Canadian psychologist based in Quebec. She is the wife of former Canadian Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair.[2]

After Mulcair became the leader of the Official Opposition in 2012, Pinhas began using the name Catherine P. Mulcair instead of Catherine Pinhas, which she previously preferred.[3]

Early life

She was born in France to a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin that had survived the Holocaust.[2][4]

Career

Pinhas works in private practice in Verdun, Quebec as well as in long-term and palliative care at a community and was a member of the board of administrator at the Order of Psychologists of Quebec and the regional health board for southwest Montreal until May 2015.[2]

She and Thomas Mulcair met as teenagers when she visited Quebec from France in order to attend a cousin's wedding. She immigrated to Canada soon after and the couple married in 1976 when they were both 21.[2]

She is a dual citizen of Canada and France and ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Assemblée des Français de l'étranger, a body representing French citizens living abroad, in 2009.[2] Under the name Catherine Mulcair, she ran on a slate aligned with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right party, the Union for a Popular Movement.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Genealogie Thomas Mulcair Nosorigines
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Smith, Joanna (April 9, 2012). "Thomas Mulcair's wife Catherine a psychologist and political confidante". Toronto Star. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ Kingston, Anne (27 November 2015). "Sophie Grégoire-What? It may be 2015, but not for political wives". Maclean's. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Bellan, Bernie (April 20, 2012). "Catherine Mulcair, Wife of new NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, is Jewish". Jewish Post and News.
  5. ↑ http://www.francais-du-monde.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/candidatures-2009.pdf
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