Monique Bégin

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Monique Bégin, PC , OC , FRSC , Ph.D , MA , BA (born March 1, 1936) is an academic and former Canadian politician.

Bégin was born in Rome and raised in France and Portugal before immigrating to Canada at the end of World War II. She received a Master of Arts in sociology from the Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne.

In 1967, she became executive secretary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, which published its report in 1970. She won election to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal candidate in the 1972 election.

She was appointed to the Canadian Cabinet by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister of National Revenue in 1976, and served as Minister of Health and Welfare from 1977 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984 during which the Canada Health Act was enacted.

In 1986, she joined the University of Ottawa and Carleton University as the first joint Ottawa-Carleton Chair of Women's Studies in 1986. From 1990 to 1997, she was the University of Ottawa's dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and continues teaching to this day as a professor emeritus.

In 1997, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Preceded by Victor Forget	Member of Parliament for Saint-Michel 1972-1979	Succeeded by Thérèse Killens
Preceded by The electoral district was created in 1977.	Member of Parliament for Saint-Léonard—Anjou 1979-1984	Succeeded by Alfonso Gagliano