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{
"time": "2025-10-27 14:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Steeve Lavoie (Beauport\u2014Limoilou, Lib.)",
"fr": "Steeve Lavoie (Beauport\u2014Limoilou, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8943840\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, as we celebrate Women's History Month, I want to pay tribute to the outstanding and often unnoticed contribution of one exceptional woman.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8943841\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Born during World War II, she raised seven children while working alongside her husband day after day on the family farm in the Lower St. Lawrence. Despite her demanding and exhausting days, she found the strength and courage to sit as a board member for a major insurance company for over 26 years, from 1986 to 2012. I need not remind the House that, back then, the number of women sitting on the boards of major corporations could be counted on one hand.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8943842\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Only recently did her children fully realize that their mother, with remarkable discretion and unwavering determination, had helped blaze new trails for women on the path to a more egalitarian society. Her name was Huguette Veilleux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8943843\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I want my mother to know that I am proud to be her son.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8943840\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 l'occasion du Mois de l'histoire des femmes, je souhaite rendre hommage \u00e0 l'apport extraordinaire et souvent silencieux d'une femme exceptionnelle.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8943841\" data-originallang=\"fr\">N\u00e9e pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle a \u00e9lev\u00e9 sept enfants tout en travaillant chaque jour aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de son mari \u00e0 la ferme familiale situ\u00e9e dans le Bas\u2011Saint\u2011Laurent. Malgr\u00e9 des journ\u00e9es exigeantes et \u00e9puisantes, elle a trouv\u00e9 la force et le courage de si\u00e9ger au conseil d'administration d'une grande compagnie d'assurances pendant plus de 26 ans, soit de 1986 \u00e0 2012. Je n'ai pas besoin de rappeler qu'\u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, les femmes pr\u00e9sentes dans les conseils d'administration d'entreprises d'envergure se comptaient sur les doigts d'une main.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8943842\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ce n'est que r\u00e9cemment que ses enfants ont pleinement r\u00e9alis\u00e9 qu'avec une discr\u00e9tion remarquable, mais une d\u00e9termination in\u00e9branlable, leur m\u00e8re avait continu\u00e9 \u00e0 faire progresser la place des femmes vers une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9galitaire. Cette femme s'appelle Huguette Veilleux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8943843\" data-originallang=\"fr\">J'aimerais dire \u00e0 ma m\u00e8re que je suis fier d'\u00eatre son fils.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/27/steeve-lavoie-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/steeve-lavoie/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4690/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13197918",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Huguette Veilleux",
"fr": "Huguette Veilleux"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/27/",
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}
}