Facts: - profession: journalist , teacher - residence: montreal , quebec - portfolio: employment , social solidarity , professional formation - party: parti quebecois -lrb- 2007-2011 -rrb- independent -lrb- 2011-present -rrb- - successor: diane de courcy - spouse: jacques parizeau - predecessor: michele lamquin-Ethier - office: mna for cremazie - term end: 2012 - birth date: 23 april 1943 - term start: april 25 , 2007 - name: lisette lapointe - image: lisettelapointe2007.jpg - birth place: montreal , quebec Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lisette lapointe .
lisette lapointe -lrb- born april 23 , 1943 in montreal , quebec -rrb- is a quebec politician , journalist and teacher , who sat in the quebec national assembly first as a parti quebecois mna and then as an independent .she is the widow of jacques parizeau , former premier of quebec , canada .she was first elected to the national assembly of quebec as a candidate for the parti quebecois in the provincial riding of cremazie in the 2007 general election .prior to her entry into politics , following in the footsteps of her husband , lapointe worked as a teacher at the secondary level .she was also a director at a local car shop , a journalist at a mascouche newspaper and was the political aide for the minister of social development and the former mna of l'assomption .after the 2007 elections , she was named on april 25 , 2007 the pq 's critic in employment and social solidarity .on june 6 , 2011 , lapointe and caucus mates louise beaudoin and pierre curzi resigned from the parti quebecois to sit as independents over the pq 's acceptance of a bill changing the law to permit an agreement between the city of quebec and quebecor inc. concerning the construction of an arena in quebec city .in november 2011 , several media outlets reported that she joined the new sovereigntist party option nationale , led by fellow former pq caucus member jean-martin aussant .however , while she has bought a membership card from the party , she also retained her membership in the parti quebecois , and continued to sit as an independent .on march 4 , 2012 she announced that she would not run for re-election and left the national assembly at the september 2012 provincial election .