What is Marcel Prud'homme?
'''Marcel Prud'homme''' (November 30, 1934 &ndash; January 25, 2017) was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the [[Senate of Canada]] for [[La Salle, Quebec]] from 1993 until his resignation in 2009. Before, he was a [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 1963 through 1993 for [[Saint-Denis (electoral district)|Saint-Denis]]. He was born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. He served as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] in the MP from 1963 through 1993 and as an Independent from 1993 until his death in 2017. In 2007, he was awarded the [[Order of Friendship|Order of Friendship of Russia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Debates of the Senate (Hansard), 2nd Session, 39th Parliament|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/..%5C39%5C2%5Cparlbus%5Cchambus%5Csenate/deb-E/018db_2007-11-29-e.htm?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=2}}{{Dead link|date=November 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Prud'homme died in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]] on January 25, 2017 from a [[heart attack]], aged 82.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/former-senator-and-quebec-mp-marcel-prudhomme-dead-at-82/article33766579/|title=Former senator and Quebec MP Marcel Prud’homme dead at 82|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|access-date=January 25, 2017|date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator_det.asp?senator_id=82&sortord=N&Language=E&M=M Official Senate biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041012232656/http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator_det.asp?senator_id=82&sortord=N&Language=E&M=M |date=2004-10-12 }} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Prudhomme, Marcel}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:Politicians from Montreal]]