riding predecessor parliament birth_place profession party birth_date term_start article_title name
argenteuil -- papineau -- mirabel mario laframboise canadian stouffville , ontario student , research assistant new democratic party 7 march 1989 june 2 , 2011 mylène freeman
 mylène freeman
mylène freeman

mylène freeman -lrb- born march 7 , 1989 -rrb- is the new democratic party member of parliament for the riding of argenteuil -- papineau -- mirabel in quebec , first elected in the 2011 canadian federal election after defeating incumbent mp mario laframboise of the bloc québécois .
born in stouffville , ontario , she is fluent in both french and english .
she grew up fluently bilingual ; she is the daughter of an irish canadian father and a french canadian mother .
she holds a bachelor of arts from mcgill university , where she studied political theory .
she was co-president of ndp mcgill -lrb- the new democratic party student group at the university -rrb- and coordinator of the university 's women in house program , which has young women shadow female mps in hopes of fostering their interest in getting involved in politics .
expecting to come in second , freeman described her victory as `` very surreal '' when she defeated powerful bloc québécois mp mario laframboise by 8,000 votes in argenteuil -- papineau -- mirabel .
she had not been to the riding at any point during the election campaign .
in the 2009 montreal municipal election , freeman stood on behalf of projet montréal in outremont as a candidate for borough councillor in claude-ryan .
she was one of five current mcgill students , alongside charmaine borg , laurin liu , matthew dubé and jamie nicholls , elected to parliament in the 2011 election following the ndp 's unexpected mid-campaign surge in quebec .
while freeman was a former co-president of ndp mcgill , borg and dubé were the incumbent co-presidents of ndp mcgill at the time that they both won election to parliament and spent the campaign working to re-elect thomas mulcair in the nearby riding of outremont .
in 2015 she was named opposition critic for the status of women .
