Fortier was named the 1976 world champion in synchronized swimming for her achievements that year and was a torch bearer for the opening ceremony of the Montreal Summer Olympics.

[1] In May 1974, Fortier won the gold medal in each of the open and closed solo (with her partner Linda Bedard) competitions of that year's Canadian Senior Synchronized Swimming Championships.

[4] She traveled to Ottawa to compete in the 1974 World Invitational Solo Synchronized Swimming Championships as part of the Pan Pacific Games held at the Nepean Sportsplex that September.

[1] At the Central Canada Regional Synchronized Swimming Championship held at the Brewer Centennial Pool in April of that year,[8] Fortier won gold medals in each of her events.

[1] Fortier teamed up with Bedard and held off Nancy Good and Helen Vanderburg of the Calgary Aquabelles to win the gold medal in the closed and open events of the Canadian Senior National Synchronized Swimming Championships for the third year in a row that May.

[16] Fortier traveled to Japan the following month and won the solo discipline against American outdoor champion Robin Curren at the Pan Pacific Games.