Alexandrine Latendresse (born April 30, 1984 in Montreal

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, Quebec

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) is the New Democratic Party

New Democratic Party

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 Member of Parliament for Louis-Saint-Laurent, first elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election. She succeeded former Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs

Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (Canada)

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 Josée Verner

Josée Verner

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 of the Conservative Party

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. She had also run in Louis-Saint-Laurent in the 2008 federal election

Canadian federal election, 2008

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, but lost.

Before politics

Latendresse had a career as a child actor, starring in advertisements in the 1980s that promoted cheese in Quebec. She then had several roles in various television series in Quebec, including Watatatow

Watatatow

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 and Virginie

Virginie

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. She also participated in several films, including La fête des rois, Soho, Aline and Le Jardin d'Anna.

Education

She received a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics at Laval University, a program she completed a week before her election. Latendresse was to undertake graduate studies in May 2011, but she agreed to postpone this decision until after the election.

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