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House Hansard - 108

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 5, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 108 - Oct/5/22
Ms. Christine Normandin (Saint-Jean, BQ)
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Mr. Speaker, Andrée Ferretti, a staunch separatist from start to finish, passed away on Thursday. On behalf of the Bloc Québécois, I want to offer my condolences to her children Lucia and Vincent, and her immediate family and friends. Born Andrée Bertrand in a working-class neighbourhood in Montreal, Andrée Ferretti discovered very early a common thread that she would follow her entire life: freedom for the people of Quebec, which would lead her to join the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale in 1963, then fight her entire life to make Quebec a country; the freedom of words, discovered alongside Miron, Aquin and so many others, developed in her novels, her essays and her articles; freedom for workers, doubly exploited as labour and as Quebeckers; and freedom for women, in politics and anywhere else. Named patriot of the year in 1979, Andrée Ferretti also made a name for herself by winning several literary awards. Today we bid a final farewell to Andrée Ferretti, separatist, writer, activist and free woman.
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