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Annick Papillon (born May 27, 1980 in Rimouski, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Québec as a member of the New Democratic Party.
Papillon was born in Rimouski and grew up in Quebec City. She earned a BA in public communications, law, and history and pursued advanced studies in journalism at Université Laval. She specialized in international politics and field journalism while studying at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and performed an internship at Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté francophone. Back in Quebec, she volunteered for humanitarian organizations. At the time of her first election, she worked for the Institut de la statistique du Québec.
Running in her first campaign, she defeated incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Christiane Gagnon with a margin of 7,709 votes in the 2011 Canadian federal election.
She also endorses Thomas Mulcair in the New Democratic Party leadership election, 2012