Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu (born February 12 1949) is a Canadian politician and victim's rights activist who was appointed to the Senate of Canada on January 29 2010 representing the province of Quebec under the banner of the Conservative Party of Canada.Boisvenu is the founding president of the Murdered or Missing Persons' Families' Association which he founded after the 2002 rape and murder of his daughter Julie.He is also co-founder of the Le Nid centre a shelter for abused women in Val-d'Or and of a camp for underprivileged youth in Estrie.Professionally Boisvenu is a former provincial civil servant in Quebec and was regional director for the Department of Recreation Game and Fisheries and for the Department of the Environment before becoming Deputy Minister for the Department of Regions.Boisvenu has a bachelor's degree in educational psychology from the Universite de Montreal and a master's degree in administration from L'Ecole nationale d'administration publique in Quebec City.In February 2012 Boisvenu a key Conservative spokesman on crime issues stated that convicted murderers should be given the choice of suicide rather than spending life in jail. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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