Catherine Dorion Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

On 1 April 2022, she announced she will not be running for re-election in the 2022 election.

On 8 November 2019, Dorion was barred from the Blue Room of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for dress code violations. Examples of her wardrobe included t-shirts and Doc Martens shoes and an orange hoodie that drew criticism previously. Speaker François Paradis notified Québec Solidaire leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois of complaints. Speaking to the media, Deputy speaker Chantal Soucy said, “we have a decorum to respect, we reminded her of it several times, it was time to draw a line”.

Catherine Dorion is a Canadian politician from Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Taschereau as a member of Québec solidaire (QS) from 2018 to 2022. Dorion is aligned with Option nationale, a pro-independence faction that is a “collective” within QS.

Dorion was elected as Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for Taschereau, 1 October 2018, as the candidate for Québec Solidaire.

She has published several written works including Même s’il fait noir comme dans le cul d’un ours (2014), and two collections of poems, FUCK TOUTE (2016) and The NoShow (2015 and 2017).

In 2013, Dorion produced a micro-documentary on immigrants and Quebec sovereignty.

She was a columnist at the Carrefour de Québec (2012-2016) and at Update – Québec (2016). She also collaborated on a show for Radio-Canada (2015) and has written blogs for Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec (2016-2018).

Dorion is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec. She also received a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and International Law from Université du Québec à Montréal, in 2009, and a master’s degree in Political Science from King’s College London, in 2010.

As an actress, Dorion has performed in several television dramas and theatre productions, including L’Auberge du chien noir. Her performance in Amélie Nothomb’s Fuels at the Théâtre du Trident, earned her the 2007 Prix Révélation of the Year Award at the Gala des Masques.

Dorion was born in Quebec in 1982. Her father, Louis Dorion, who died in 1998, was a lawyer from Quebec City; her mother, Claudette Brasseur, was a court reporter. She grew up in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste neighbourhood of Quebec City and was the last of nine children. Her grandfather was Noel Dorion, a Progressive Conservative (PC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bellechasse riding. She has two daughters.