Mélanie Joly

The Honourable
Mélanie Joly
PC MP
Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie
Assumed office
July 18, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by Bardish Chagger (Tourism)
Marie-Claude Bibeau (La Francophonie)
8th Minister of Canadian Heritage
In office
November 4, 2015 – July 18, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by Shelly Glover
Succeeded by Pablo Rodríguez
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Ahuntsic-Cartierville
Assumed office
October 19, 2015
Preceded by Maria Mourani
Personal details
Born (1979-01-16) January 16, 1979
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Félix Marzell, Frédéric Drouin (former spouse)
Relations Clément Joly (father), Laurette Racine (mother), Carole-Marie Allard (stepmother)
Alma mater Université de Montréal
University of Oxford
Occupation Lawyer, politician
Website http://mjoly.liberal.ca/en/

Mélanie Joly PC MP (born January 16, 1979) is a Canadian lawyer, public relations expert, and politician. She is a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing Ahuntsic-Cartierville, and also serves as the Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie in the present Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau. She previously served in Trudeau's cabinet as Minister of Canadian Heritage.

In 2013, she was a runner-up in Montreal municipal elections for the position of mayor and obtained 26.50% of the votes, trailing winner Denis Coderre. She won in Ahuntsic-Cartierville in the 2015 Canadian federal election with 47.5% of the votes cast.

Education

Born at Fleury Hospital in 1979, she grew up in Montreal's north shore neighbourhood of Ahuntsic.[1] Joly's father is Clément Joly, an accountant who was president of the Liberal Party of Canada's finance committee in Quebec and manager of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority from 2002 to 2007 and husband of Carole-Marie Allard, a lawyer, journalist and member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Laval—East from 2000 to 2004.

After completing her degree in Law (Honours) at the Université de Montréal in 2001, Joly became a member of the Barreau du Québec. She subsequently received the Chevening scholarship and continued her studies at the University of Oxford, where she obtained a master's degree (Magister Juris) in comparative and public law in 2003.[2] Joly also interned at Radio-Canada, in 2007.[3]

Career

At the beginning of her career, Joly practised law at two major Montreal law firms, Stikeman Elliott and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg. At the latter firm, her mentor was former Parti Quebecois Premier Lucien Bouchard, who supplied her with a letter of recommendation for her Oxford application.[4] She worked primarily in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, bankruptcy and insolvency law. She was also a prosecutor before the Gomery Commission of inquiry.[5]

She then made the leap into the world of communications and was quickly appointed managing partner of the public relations firm Cohn & Wolfe's Montreal.[2] In 2013, she was appointed to head the Quebec Advisory Committee for Justin Trudeau’s leadership campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Along with her colleagues, she founded Generation of Ideas, which is a political forum for 25- to 35-year-olds.[6] She is also a member of the collective group Sortie 13, where she penned a contribution entitled "Les villes au pouvoir ou comment relancer le monde municipal québécois".[7]

In June 2013, Joly announced her candidacy for mayor of Montreal in the elections which occurred in the same year. She founded a new party, Vrai changement pour Montréal, to support her candidacy. On November 3, election day, she obtained 26.50% of the votes, finishing six points behind the winner, Denis Coderre. However, she finished ahead of several more established challengers.[8]

In 2015, Joly left municipal politics and announced her candidacy for the nomination of the Liberal Party of Canada in the new electoral district of Ahuntsic-Cartierville for the 2015 federal election.[9] Joly won the riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville with 47.5% of the vote, unseating incumbent Maria Mourani.[10] After the election, Joly was named as the Minister of Canadian Heritage as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 29th Canadian Ministry.[11]

Joly was transferred to Minister of Tourism, Official Languages, and La Francophonie circa 28 August 2018.[12]

Electoral history

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
LiberalMélanie Joly26,02646.8+15.7$149,387.67
New DemocraticMaria Mourani16,68430.0+0.1$86,722.49
Bloc QuébécoisNicolas Bourdon7,34613.2-15.1$27,931.96
ConservativeWiliam Moughrabi4,0517.3-1.3$12,346.58
GreenGilles Mercier1,1752.1+0.7–
RhinocerosCatherine Gascon-David2850.5––
Total valid votes/Expense limit –100.0   $220,041.13
Total rejected ballots –––
Turnout –––
Eligible voters 82,863
Source: Elections Canada[13][14]

Other activities

In addition to her professional activities, Joly is involved in the philanthropic sector. In 2010, she became the first Quebecker to receive the Arnold Edinborough award, which recognizes philanthropic involvement within the Canadian cultural community.[15] To this day, she is spokesperson for Logis Rose-Virginie and ambassador for La rue des Femmes.

Joly has served on several committees and boards of directors (see list below).

On October 15, 2014, she published her first book entitled Changer les règles du jeu (Changing the Rules of the Game). This publication dealt with the balance of power between the different levels of government and the division between political powers and the population. It also discussed other issues such as climate change, public transportation and the growth of social inequalities.

  • 2012–2013 — CHUM Foundation, member of the board of directors
  • 2011–2013 — Quebec Pension Plan, member of the board of directors
  • 2011 — Sortie 13, member of the think tank group
  • 2011–2013 — Entrepreneur organization (EO), member of forum 8
  • 2011–2012 — Governor General Award of Performing Arts, member of the national organizing committee
  • 2010–2013 — Canadian Circle, member of the board of directors
  • 2009–2012 — Laval Symphony Orchestra, member of the board of directors and founding president of future committee
  • 2009–2011 — Young Canadians in Finance (Business women’s division), founding member of the committee
  • 2009–2010 — Montreal Bach Festival, member of the board of directors
  • 2008–2013 — Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, member of the board of directors and president of the governance committee
  • 2008–2013 — Conseil supérieur de la langue française, member of the board of directors
  • 2007–2011 — Génération d’idées, cofounder and member of the board of directors
  • 2007–2011 — Ballets Jazz de Montréal, member of the Honouring Committee
  • 2007–2008 — Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, founding president of the Youth Committee and initiated the MCAM Spring Project
  • 2006–2007 — Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, member of the board of directors and founding president of the youth committee
  • 2006–2008 — Advisory Board of the dean of the Faculty of law at l’Université de Montréal, member of the board of directors

References

  1. ↑ Patriquin, Martin (June 10, 2016). "The sunniest Liberal, Mélanie Joly". Maclean's Magazine. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Mélanie Joly". LinkedIn. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly once interned at Radio-Canada". CBC.ca. 2015-11-07. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  4. ↑ Campbell Clark, Liberal newcomers could bring wide-ranging experience to Trudeau's cabinet, The Globe & Mail, October 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ "À PROPOS DE MÉLANIE JOLY". Le vrai changement pour Montréal - groupe Mélanie Joly. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Frigon, Gaétan (2013-06-01). "Mélanie qui? Mélanie Joly". La Presse. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Joly, Mélanie. "Les villes au pouvoir ou comment relancer le monde municipal québécois". Sortie13. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "Élections municipales 2013 - Résultats | ICI.Radio-Canada.ca". Radio-Canada.ca. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
  9. ↑ De Grandpré, Hugo (February 19, 2015). "Mélanie Joly dans Ahuntsic: des libéraux réitèrent leur intention d'être candidats". La Presse. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Election results: Mélanie Joly wins as Maria Mourani fails to stop second wave in Ahuntsic-Cartierville". Montreal Gazette. October 20, 2015.
  11. ↑ "The Honourable Mélanie Joly". Prime Minister's Office.
  12. ↑ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-prime-minister-trudeau-has-last-shot-to-help-michaelle-jean-stay-on-as/
  13. ↑ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Ahuntsic-Cartierville, 30 September 2015
  14. ↑ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
  15. ↑ "Business for the Arts — Previous Winners". www.businessforthearts.org. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
29th Ministry – Cabinet of Justin Trudeau
Cabinet posts (2)
Predecessor Office Successor
Bardish Chagger (Tourism)
Marie-Claude Bibeau
(La Francophonie)		 Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and la Francophonie
July 17, 2018–		 Incumbent
Shelly Glover Minister of Canadian Heritage
November 4, 2015–July 17, 2018		 Pablo Rodriguez
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