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{{Infobox person
| name        = Brigette DePape
| image       = Brigette DePape.jpg
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| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1989|09|14}}
| birth_place = [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], Canada
| death_date  =
(contracted; show full)Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest| last=Payton| first=Laura| date=June 3, 2011 |publisher=CBC| accessdate=June 3, 2011}}</ref> In a subsequent interview, DePape explained that she disagreed with [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Stephen Harper]]'s policies.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110603/throne-speech-protester-110503/| title=Page with 'Stop Harper' sign fired from Senate| date=June 3, 2011| publisher=CTV| accessdate=June 5, 2011
| deadurl=yes| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606121316/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110603/throne-speech-protester-110503| archivedate=June 6, 2011| df=}}</ref>

In an interview, then [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Opposition Leader]] [[Jack Layton]] voiced  disapproval of DePape's protest, stating "We have been pushing for decorum in the House of Commons. You don't have decorum if people are standing up holding up signs in the middle of debates and solemn moments... We encourage protests... But it should be happening at the proper place and at the proper time."<ref name=celebritycontroversy>{{cite news|url=htt(contracted; show full)e announced the creation of a "Stop Harper Fund" to support "organizations and individuals engaging in creative non-violent direct actions against the Harper government's agenda." The fund planned to organize an advisory committee to direct funds to selected organizations, and legal and fiscal governance to ensure the donations were spent in accordance with the fund's stated mandate.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.stopharperfund.ca/| title=The Stop Harper Fund home page|
  date=June 8, 2011|   publisher=Stop Harper Fund| accessdate=June 9, 2011| deadurl=yes| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612054352/http://www.stopharperfund.ca/| archivedate=June 12, 2011| df=}}</ref>

==Other protests and activism==
Between June 26–27, 2010, DePape participated in protests at the [[2010 G-20 Toronto summit|G20 summit in Toronto]].<ref>{{cite web| last=Drake| first=Tomasz| title=Interruption du discours du trône: Qui est Brigette DePape?| url=http://www.polyscope.qc.ca/spip.php?article1752| publisher=Le Polyscope| accessdate=June 12, 2011}}</ref> On September 26, 2011, she took part in a protest on [[Parliament Hill]] against [[Oil sands|Alberta oil sands devel(contracted; show full)ipeg, and Saskatoon at their respective [[fringe theatre]] festivals,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getguerilla.ca/past-issues/archive-18/36-features/141-brigette|title=Twirling in a Fringe Factory|publisher=Guerilla Magazine|accessdate=June 3, 2011}}</ref> as well as the [[TED (conference)#Programs|TEDxYouthOttawa conference]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tedxyouthottawa.org/?page_id=13|title=TEDxYouthOttawa - Presenters|publisher=FYBY (For Youth, By Youth) News|accessdate=June 4, 2011
|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905194541/http://www.tedxyouthottawa.org/?page_id=13|archivedate=September 5, 2013|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tedxyouthottawa.org/?page_id=2|title=TEDxYouthOttawa - About|publisher=FYBY (For Youth, By Youth) News|accessdate=June 4, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929172742/http://www.tedxyouthottawa.org/?page_id=2|archivedate=September 29, 2010|df=}}</ref> DePape missed her [[convocation]] [[ceremony]] at the [[University of Ottawa]] to do media interviews.<ref name=celebritycontroversy />

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110612054352/http://www.stopharperfund.ca/ Brigette DePape's fund to support organizations in opposition to Stephen Haper's political agenda], June 9, 2011
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5I1hRcLNU The CBC's Evan Solomon speaks with Brigette DePape about the incident on the Senate floor], June 3, 2011
* {{Citation  | title = Brigette DePape, Senate Protester And Performance Artist, And Her Instant Rise To Fame (VIDEO)   | newspaper = Huffington Post  | date = June 9, 2011  | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/06/04/brigette-depape-senate-protest-marcelle_n_871331.html  | accessdate = June 9, 2011}}

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