Background
Venne, Pierrette was born on August 8, 1945 in Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada. Daughter of Lucien Venne and Marcelle Laberge.
politician member of the House of Commons of Canada
Venne, Pierrette was born on August 8, 1945 in Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada. Daughter of Lucien Venne and Marcelle Laberge.
Student, University Sherbrooke student, University Aix-En-Provence student, University Winnipeg student, Cegep du Vieux Montréal.
By career, she is a lawyer. Venne was elected in the Saint-Hubert electoral district under the Progressive Conservative party in the 1988 general election. The riding was recently created from a restructuring of two former ridings.
She was re-elected in Saint-Hubert in the 1993 general election, and was also re-elected in 1997 and 2000 when the riding was renamed Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert. Her term of office would cover the 34th, 35th, 36th and 37th Canadian Parliaments. She left the Conservatives to join the Bloc Québécois party on 12 August 1991.
On 7 February 2003 she was ejected from the Bloc after she made critical comments about party leader Gilles Duceppe. Venne remained in Parliament until the end of her term after which she left politics.
Bloc Québécois, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Active Young Men’s Christian Association Feminist Action Committee. Member East-Control Montreal Notaries' Association (former president), Chamber Notaries, U. Sherbrooke Law Faculty Alumni Association.
Married Jean-Marc Perron.