She also served as an administrator, as president and commissioner of the Le Gardeur School Board, and as director of public relations for Steinberg Inc., a Quebec grocery and department store business.

She was not appointed to the Cabinet of John Turner, who succeeded Trudeau as Liberal leader and prime minister in June 1984.

[2] She returned to the private sector and served as vice president of business ventures at the SNC Group, an engineering and manufacturing firm, from 1985 to 1989.

[11] Hervieux-Payette became involved in controversy in March 2006 when she responded to an American couple's letter to all Canadian Senators protesting the annual seal hunt in Newfoundland.

She later clarified her remarks, arguing that Americans should worry about their own country's behaviour before pointing fingers at other nations.

No matter what, the first victims of an attack will probably be police officers, because people who wish to do harm do not give advance notice.

Security that relies on firepower has proven to be ineffective, and millions of Americans have paid the price for this false assumption with their lives."