Chris Lowrey
CAMPBELL’S BAY
August 23, 2017
The MRC Pontiac wants to see more women get involved in municipal politics, so it’s putting its money where its mouth is.
There will be a networking event held on Aug. 29 at 5 p.m. in the Elsie Gibbons room at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay.
The event will feature a panel of women with a plethora of experience in local politics. The panel will be led by MRC Papineau Warden Paulette Lalande.

The event is organized by AGIR Outaouais, an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of women and encouraging more of them to get into politics.
The networking opportunity will provide the women in attendance with all the tools they need for a political run.
“It provides a lot of useful information for women who might want to get involved in politics and what the experience of women in politics is,” said MRC Pontiac spokesperson Danielle Belec.
Litchfield Mayor Colleen Larivière will be one of the women on the panel along with Lalande and others.
Governments at all levels have been making more of an effort to get women involved in poltics recently. Justin Trudeau, at the federal level, raised several eyebrows when he formed government with a cabinet that was made up of 50 per cent women.
But Belec said that although a lack of women in politics is a systemic issue, the Pontiac has fared better than most.
“Compared to the Outaouais and the rest of Quebec a higher percentage of our elected officials are women,” she said.
“I think it’s something to be proud of,” Belec said.