Michèle Audette
Michèle Taïna Audette (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian politician and Native Canadian activist.
Life
Audette was born in Wabush, and grew up between Schefferville, Maliotenam and Montreal. Her mixed family (her French-Canadian father Gilles Audette came from Quebec and mother Evelyne St-Onge is Innu) was denied a house on reserve.[1] Evelyne was a co-founder of FAQ, who fought against a clause in the "Federal Indian Act" which states that a Native woman who marries a non-Native man can not return to live in her community.[1]
She was president of the Quebec Native Women (FAQ), then Canada's Aboriginal Women (NWAC).[2] She was also between 2004 and 2008, Associate Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Relations with Citizens and Immigration Quebec government, in charge of the Secretariat for Women. She was also public relations and coordinator of many festivals and Aboriginal Nations researcher, a news magazine on the Indians broadcast on Télé-Québec.
In the 2015 Canadian federal election, she was the Liberal candidate for the riding of Terrebonne,[3] but she was not elected.[4]
Audette, a mother of five, lives in both Wendake near Québec City and Maliotenam near Sept-Îles, Quebec with her domestic partner Serge Ashini Goupil, a consultant with the indigenous rights group Nation Innue.[5]
Electoral record
| Canadian federal election, 2015: Terrebonne | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Michel Boudrias | 19,238 | 33.01 | +2.23 | – | |||
| Liberal | Michèle Audette | 16,316 | 27.99 | +21.07 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Charmaine Borg | 14,928 | 25.61 | -25.93 | – | |||
| Conservative | Michel Surprenant | 6,615 | 11.35 | +3.28 | – | |||
| Green | Susan Moen | 1,016 | 1.74 | -0.95 | – | |||
| Strength in Democracy | Louis Clément Sénat | 171 | 0.29 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 58,284 | 100.00 | $221,503.04 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,256 | 2.11 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 59,540 | 70.63 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 84,298 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic | Swing | +14.08 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[6][7] | ||||||||
References
- 1 2 García, Leani (Spring 2013). "Politics Innovator: Michèle Audette, Canada". Americas Quarterly.
- ↑ Déry, Emy-Jane. "Michèle Audette en larmes lors de l'annonce de la tenue d'une enquête sur les femmes autochtones disparues ou assassinées". Le Journal de Québec. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
- ↑ Lévesque, Catherine (August 21, 2015). "Michèle Audette To Run For Liberals In Quebec Riding Of Terrebonne". The Huffington Post Quebec. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Former NWAC president Audette misses red wave". APTN National News. October 20, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
- ↑ Curtis, Christopher (August 5, 2016). "Michèle Audette "a fighter" for missing and murdered aboriginal women". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
- ↑ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Terrebonne, 30 September 2015
- ↑ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.