Catherine Pinhas
Catherine Pinhas Mulcair | |
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| Born | 27 September 1955 |
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| Known for | Spouse of Leader of the Opposition (2012-2015) |
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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
She was born in France to a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin that had survived the Holocaust.[2][4]
Career
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.[5]
References
- ^ Genealogie Thomas Mulcair Nosorigines
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ Bellan, Bernie (April 20, 2012). "Catherine Mulcair, Wife of new NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, is Jewish". Jewish Post and News.
- ^ http://www.francais-du-monde.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/candidatures-2009.pdf
- 20th-century Sephardi Jews
- 21st-century Sephardi Jews
- Anglophone Quebec people
- Canadian people of French-Jewish descent
- Canadian people of Turkish-Jewish descent
- Canadian psychologists
- Children of Holocaust survivors
- French emigrants to Quebec
- French psychologists
- French Jews
- French people of Turkish-Jewish descent
- Living people
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- People from Paris
- People from Montreal
- Sephardi Jews
- Spouses of Canadian politicians