Maria Chaput
Maria Chaput | |
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| File:Maria Chaput.jpg Senator Maria Chaput | |
| Senator from Manitoba | |
| In office December 12, 2002 – March 1, 2016 | |
| Appointed by | Adrienne Clarkson |
| Succeeded by | Marilou McPhedran |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 7, 1942 Ste. Anne, Manitoba, Canada |
| Party | Liberal (until 2014) Independent Liberal (2014-present) |
| Residence | Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes, Manitoba[1] |
Maria Emma Chaput CM[1] (born May 7, 1942) is a former member of the Senate of Canada representing the Senatorial Division of Manitoba. She is the first franco-Manitoban woman to be appointed to the upper house of the Parliament of Canada.
On January 29, 2014, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau announced all Liberal Senators, including Chaput, to be removed from the Liberal caucus, and would continue sitting as Independents.[2] The Senators continued to refer themselves as the Senate Liberal Caucus even though they were constitutionally no longer members of the parliamentary Liberal caucus.[3]
Chaput announced her retirement from the Senate on February 4, 2016, effective March 1, 2016, due to kidney health issues that she had been managing for "a few years." Despite her doctor's recommendation, she held off retirement until the Liberals won the 2015 federal election saying: "I just didn't want to give my seat to Stephen Harper. That's what I told my doctor and he said, 'Well, that's your decision,' and I said 'Exactly.'"[4] She supported Trudeau's move to a non-partisan senate appointment process.
Chaput was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022.[1]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Senator Maria Chaput (copy archived December 25, 2013)
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Liberal Party of Canada senators
- Canadian senators from Manitoba
- People from Ste. Anne, Manitoba
- Franco-Manitoban people
- Women members of the Senate of Canada
- Women in Manitoba politics
- 21st-century members of the Senate of Canada
- 21st-century Canadian women politicians
- Members of the Order of Canada