Catherine Pinhas Mulcair
| Catherine Pinhas Mulcair | |
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| Born | 27 September 1955 France |
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| Known for | Spouse of Leader of the Opposition (2012-2015) |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Thomas Mulcair (m. 1976) |
Catherine Pinhas Mulcair (born September 27, 1955[1]) is a Canadian psychologist based in Quebec. She is the wife of former Canadian Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair.[2]
After Mulcair became the leader of the Official Opposition in 2012, Pinhas began using the name Catherine P. Mulcair instead of Catherine Pinhas, which she previously preferred.[3]
Early life[edit]
She was born in France to a secular, Jewish family of Holocaust survivors, their Sephardic forebears had lived in what is now Turkey, and grew up in the Paris suburb of Neuilly.[4][2][5][6] Catherine's mother, Lydia, fled the German occupation as an 11-year-old with her own mother to the town of Aurillac, in a part of France not yet occupied by Germany, where they managed to survive the war even after Germany occupied all of France.[4]
Career[edit]
Pinhas works in private practice in Verdun, Quebec as well as in long-term and palliative care at a community and was a member of the board of administrator at the Order of Psychologists of Quebec and the regional health board for southwest Montreal until May 2015.[2]
She and Thomas Mulcair met as teenagers when she visited Quebec from France in order to attend a cousin's wedding. She immigrated to Canada soon after and the couple married in 1976 when they were both 21.[2]
She is a dual citizen of Canada and France and ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Assemblée des Français de l'étranger, a body representing French citizens living abroad, in 2009.[2] Under the name Catherine Mulcair, she ran on a slate aligned with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right party, the Union for a Popular Movement.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Genealogie Thomas Mulcair Nosorigines
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Smith, Joanna (April 9, 2012). "Thomas Mulcair's wife Catherine a psychologist and political confidante". Toronto Star. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
- ↑ Kingston, Anne (27 November 2015). "Sophie Grégoire-What? It may be 2015, but not for political wives". Maclean's. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mulcair, Tom (18 July 2015). "The enchantment of Tom Mulcair (published excerpt from Mulcair autobiography)". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ↑ Bellan, Bernie (April 20, 2012). "Catherine Mulcair, Wife of new NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, is Jewish". Jewish Post and News.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Kirkup, Kristy (11 October 2015). "Refugee crisis personal for NDP leader's wife Catherine Pinhas Mulcair". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ↑ http://www.francais-du-monde.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/candidatures-2009.pdf
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- 20th-century Sephardi Jews
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- Canadian psychologists
- Children of Holocaust survivors
- French emigrants to Quebec
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- People from Paris
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- Sephardi Jews
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