- Raymonde Folco
Infobox CanadianMP | name=Raymonde Folco
term_start=1997
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predecessor=Michel Dupuy
birth_date= birth date and age |1940|3|16
birth_place=Paris, France
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profession= business administrator/public servant/educational advisor
party=Liberal
party colour=Liberal
residence=Laval, Quebec
riding=Laval—Les Îles
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spouse=Jean Folco
religion=|Raymonde Folco (née Goldgrav) (born
March 16 ,1940 ) is a Canadian politician.Born in a
Jewish family inParis , she hid with Christian families duringWorld War II . She emigrated toToronto with her family in 1950s. She received a Bachelor of Arts from theUniversity of Melbourne , a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics from theUniversité du Québec à Montréal , and Master of Arts in applied linguistics fromConcordia University .Folco's political career began in the Quebec arena, where she was vice-president in 1988 and then, from 1990 to 1995, president of the Conseil des communautés culturelles et de l'immigration, a Quebec agency whose role is to advise the government on matters relating to immigration and integration of ethnic minorities. While holding that position, she was recruited to the Liberal Party and ran for the
Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal candidate for theQuebec riding of Laval East in 1993, losing to theBloc Québécois candidate,Maud Debien .However, Folco was elected in 1997 and 2000 for the riding of Laval West, and reelected in 2004 and 2006 for the newly-formed riding of
Laval—Les Îles . From 2000 to 2003, she served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development.Having begun her pre-political career as a lecturer in Jamaica and in Australia, as a politician Folco has served on a number of diplomatic or quasi-diplomatic foreign missions, including the
Central African Republic ;East Timor ;Republic of Congo ;Haiti ;Ivory Coast ; andChiapas ,Mexico . Up until May, 2006, Folco was vice president ofLiberal International .References
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External links
* [http://www.raymondefolco.parl.gc.ca/splash.asp Official site of Raymonde Folco]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=9187&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
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