I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Ca… - Judy LaMarsh

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I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

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Julia Verlyn (Judy) LaMarsh, PC, OC, QC (December 20, 1924 – October 27, 1980) was a Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. In 1963, she was only the second woman to ever serve as a federal Cabinet Minister. Under Prime Minister Lester Pearson's minority governments of the middle and late 1960s, she helped push-through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare.

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I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics. - Judy LaMarsh

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