[1] She was a founder and the first president of the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ).
[1] After placing first in the 1952 Quebec bar exam,[3] Laberge-Colas began her career as in-house counsel to Aluminium Secretariat Ltd,[4] an affiliate of what is now Alcan.
[5] In 1957, she took a position as an articling student at Geoffrion et Prud'homme, a corporate law firm.
[4] Among other professional activities, Laberge served in the family law section of Office de révision du Code civil du Québec [fr] in the late 1960s and on an extraordinary challenge committee in connection with NAFTA in 1994.
[8] Along with Thérèse Casgrain and Monique Bégin, Laberge-Colas founded the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ) in Montreal during a conference that ran from 23 to 24 April 1966.