Youngest female MP (class of 2007) visits her old high school

Lauren Liu - 20 years old - who knocked off incumbent Bloc MP Luc Desnoyers, retired Québec Director of the CAW.

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After graduating from Royal West, Liu attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. A career in politics wasn’t on her radar. She was a second-year student at McGill University studying history and culture studies when, to her huge surprise, she won the Rivière-des-Mille-Îles riding for the NDP in May’s federal election.

“I didn’t think I would end up in politics, to be honest,” Liu told The Gazette after her talk. She had been thinking of a career as a writer or a historian.

She has rented a place in St. Eustache and says she is shopping for a car. She has sometimes gone to see constituents on her bike. “I got teased about it a lot from the municipal councillors because they call me ‘the bike MP.’ ”