Mylène Freeman (born March 7, 1989) is the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for the riding of Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel in Quebec, first elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election after defeating incumbent MP Mario Laframboise of the Bloc Québécois.

Born in Stouffville, Ontario, she is fluent in both French and English. She grew up fluently bilingual, she is the daughter of an Irish Canadian father and a French Canadian mother.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, where she studied political theory. She was co-president of NDP McGill (the New Democratic Party student group at the university) and coordinator of the university's Women in House program, which has young women shadow female MPs in hopes of fostering their interest in getting involved in politics.

Expecting to come in second, Freeman described her victory as "very surreal" when she defeated powerful Bloc Québécois MP Mario Laframboise by 8,000 votes in Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel. She had not been to the riding at any point during the election campaign.

Linda Francis Duncan (born June 25, 1949) is a Canadian lawyer and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament for the riding of Edmonton—Strathcona in Alberta. She is a member of the New Democratic Party and, since 2008, she has been the only MP from an Alberta riding not a member of the Conservative Party. Since her election to 40th Parliament in October 2008, she has served as a member of the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, as well as the NDP caucus' Environment Critic. Prior to her election, she ran unsuccessfully in the same riding in 2006.

Duncan has spent most of her life in Edmonton. She graduated the University of Alberta's undergraduate and law programs and founded Edmonton's Environmental Law Centre. She practiced law, specializing in environmental law, in the city until 1987 when she moved to Ottawa to work for Environment Canada. She spent time in Whitehorse working as an assistant deputy in the Yukon government, then Montreal working in NAFTA's Commission for Environmental Cooperation. She attained a Masters of Law at Dalhousie Law School and spent several years on the Sierra Legal Defence Fund's Board of Directors.

Françoise Boivin (born June 11, 1960 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Gatineau in the Canadian House of Commons.

She first represented the district from 2004 to 2006 as a member of the Liberal Party, but was defeated in the 2006 election by Richard Nadeau of the Bloc Québécois. She subsequently left the Liberals and ran to reclaim her seat in the 2008 election as a New Democratic Party candidate, but was narrowly defeated by Nadeau. She was re-elected to Parliament as a New Democrat in the 2011 election.

Françoise Boivin has degrees in social sciences and civil law from the University of Ottawa.

Boivin has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1984. She began her legal career with Beaudry, Bertrand and subsequently co-founded the law firm Letellier & Associés. During this time, she also taught, and was in charge of the negotiation sector, at the Quebec Bar training school.

In September 1998, Boivin hosted a public affairs program on CJRC. She was subsequently asked to host a number of other programs for CJRC-1150 and for Canal Vox. During the times of increasing price of gas, she made a daring move by asking her radio listeners to boycott Petro-Canada to push the country's national fuel company to decrease its prices.