The Capital Builders: How Gisèle Lalonde saved the Montfort Hospital . Gisèle Lalonde died at the Montfort early Wednesday. She was 89. In this feature from our archives, writer Patrick Butler describes her life and career.
However, it was her successful efforts as president of a group to save the Montfort Hospital as the only francophone teaching hospital in Ontario that brought her to national attention.In this feature from our archives, former writer Patrick Butler describes her life and career.
But she was also always full of energy. Now, 83 years old and still living in Vanier, she is as energetic – and talkative – as ever. “Every time I’d get up, they’d clap. Every time I’d speak, they’d clap,” she says. “I said, ‘I listen to you, I’m a trustee like you, I don’t need to be clapped for more than you, I’m no different than you. So, that’s enough.’ ”
In the end, Lalonde lost the election, but succeeded at what she’d set out to do: getting to know and earning the trust of people in power at Queen’s Park. It paid off. Before becoming Vanier mayor in 1985, she served on several high-level provincial committees and was the premier’s adviser on francophone issues.
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