Politician Lise Bacon was Quebec’s first female deputy premier

Discreet, determined and unafraid of a fight, Lise Bacon entered politics to change the world. She loved Quebec first and foremost, believed in a united Canada and worked hard throughout her career to ensure that people were protected, be they consumers, children or the unemployed.

No matter if it was as a young political activist, a provincial Liberal minister in the cabinet of premier Robert Bourassa, Quebec’s first-ever female deputy premier or during her long stint as a federal senator, Ms. Bacon, who died on Oct. 29 in Montreal at the age of 91, mastered each file she was in charge of so she could defend it on the fly.