A Quebec Woman Has Won Half Of A Lotto Max Jackpot & She Plans To Spoil Her Kids

The woman set a record in the province with her win!
A Quebec Woman Has Won Half Of A Lotto Max Jackpot & She Plans To Spoil Her Kids
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A woman from the Capitale-Nationale region took home $15,231,359 of an April 13 Lotto Max jackpot in Quebec — amounting to half of the total prize.

Liliane Fortin made history with her lottery winnings; it's the biggest prize ever won in the province at that particular lottery game with a ticket purchased online, according to an April 21 press release from Loto-Québec.

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Loto-Québec said Fortin was emotional when she received a call notifying her of her win — the other half of the total jackpot was won in another Canadian province.

"I saw that it was true, that I had the winning ticket, and that the amount was what the employee had told me. It was incredible," she told Loto-Québec.

Fortin said she wanted to "wait a little" while before deciding how to spend her multimillions (save for purchasing a new pair of glasses), but she said that "spoiling her children, landscaping her home and travelling to Europe" are among her spending plans.

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    Lea Sabbah was a Staff Writer for MTL Blog. Previously, Lea was a radio host on CJLO 1690 AM and her work has been published by Global News, the Toronto Star, Le Devoir and the National Observer. In 2019, she was part of the investigative team that uncovered lead in Montreal's drinking water — a story which won Quebec's Grand Prix Judith-Jasmin. She's a graduate of the journalism program at Concordia University.

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