constituency predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start residence article_title term_end name
rimouski -- témiscouata rimouski -- mitis rimouski-neigette-et-la mitis monique vézina riding renamed riding renamed riding dissolved montreal , quebec bloc québécois member of the canadian house of commons 24 january 1937 1993 1997 2000 le bic , quebec suzanne tremblay
 1997 2000 2004 suzanne tremblay
suzanne tremblay

suzanne tremblay -lrb- born january 24 , 1937 -rrb- is a politician from quebec , canada , who served as a bloc québécois member of the house of commons of canada from 1993 to 2004 .
born in montreal , tremblay received a queen elizabeth ii scholarship to attend tufts university in the united states , where she earned a master 's degree in pre-school education .
she then completed a certificate in educational studies at the université de lyon and a certificate in child care studies at the university of london .
tremblay was first elected to the canadian house of commons in the 1993 federal election for the riding of rimouski -- témiscouata .
she was re-elected in the 1997 election for the riding of rimouski-mitis and in the 2000 election for rimouski-neigette-et-la mitis .
she announced her intention not to run again in the 2004 federal election .
she was occasionally a controversial figure , once pointing out that quebec premier jean charest 's first name was really `` john '' in an attempt to discredit him as a representative of the true quebec ; the bloc québécois leader gilles duceppe distanced himself from this comment .
tremblay also made similar comments attacking radio-canada journalist joyce napier for not having a francophone name , and pop singer céline dion for purportedly turning her back on her québécoise identity in her pursuit of pop stardom .
following tremblay 's announcement of her retirement from the house of commons , louise thibault , a municipal councillor in le bic , became the bloc québécois candidate in the new riding of rimouski-neigette -- témiscouata -- les basques , and won the 2004 election .
tremblay ran in the resulting by-election to fill thibault 's municipal council seat , running primarily on a campaign of opposing the then-proposed amalgamation of le bic with rimouski .
she lost narrowly to pierre garon , a local farmer and trucker who had not previously been active in politics .
