Mélanie Joly
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The Honourable Mélanie Joly PC MP |
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| Minister of Canadian Heritage | |
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Assumed office November 4, 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Shelly Glover |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Ahuntsic-Cartierville |
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Assumed office October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Maria Mourani |
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January 16, 1979 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Relations | Clément Joly (father), Laurette Racine (mother), Carole-Marie Allard (stepmother) |
| Alma mater |
Université de Montréal Oxford University |
| Occupation | Lawyer, Politician |
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 Canadian Heritage in the present Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau. In 2013, she was a runner-up in Montreal municipal elections for the position of mayor obtaining 26.50% of the votes, trailing Mayor elect Denis Coderre. She won in Ahuntsic-Cartierville in the 2015 Canadian federal election with 47.5% of the votes cast.
Born at Fleury Hospital in 1979, she grew up in Montreal's north shore neighbourhood of Ahuntsic. 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, lawyer, journalist and member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Laval—East from 2000 to 2004.
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