Johanne Deschamps
Canadian politician
Intro | Canadian politician | |
Places | Canada | |
is | Politician | |
Work field | Politics | |
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Birth | 2 April 1959 | |
Age | 65 years |
Johanne Deschamps (born April 2, 1959 in Saint-Jovite, Quebec) is a Canadian politician.
She is a former administrative assistant and political attaché. She served as a councillor in Val-Barrette, Quebec from 1994 to 2004 and was Commissioner of the Pierre-Neveu School Board in Mont-Laurier, Quebec from 1998 to 2004. After that, she was elected as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada in the Canadian federal election, 2004. She represents the riding of Laurentides—Labelle. She had also run in the Canadian federal election, 2000 for the Bloc in the riding of Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle but lost. She was re-elected in 2006 and 2008, but lost to NDP candidate Marc-André Morin in the 2011 election.