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She is the wife of former Canadian Opposition leader Tom Mulcair. 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. She was born in France to a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin that had survived the Holocaust.
She and Tom Mulcair met as teenagers when she visited Quebec from France in order to attend a cousin"s wedding.
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. 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.
