Mélanie Joly

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The Honourable
Mélanie Joly
PC MP
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Joly in 2022
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Assumed office
October 26, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by Marc Garneau
Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages
In office
November 20, 2019 – October 26, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by Navdeep Bains (Economic Development)
Herself (Official Languages)
Succeeded by Mary Ng (Economic Development)
Ginette Petitpas Taylor (Official Languages)
Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario
In office
November 20, 2019 – October 26, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by Navdeep Bains
Succeeded by Patty Hajdu
Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie
In office
July 18, 2018 – November 20, 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Preceded by
Succeeded by Herself (as Minister for Official Languages)
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 (age 45)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party Liberal
Other political
affiliations		 Vrai changement pour Montréal (municipal)
Residence Le Plateau, Montreal, Quebec[1]
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer
Awards Chevening Scholarship

Mélanie Joly PC MP (born January 16, 1979) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as minister of Foreign Affairs since October 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Joly represents the Montreal-area riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville in the House of Commons, taking office as a member of Parliament (MP) following the 2015 federal election. She has held a number of portfolios including Canadian heritage, tourism, and La Francophonie. Joly ran for mayor of Montreal in the 2013 Montreal municipal election, placing second behind eventual winner Denis Coderre.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Joly graduated from Université de Montréal and Brasenose College, Oxford.

Early and personal life

Born on January 16, 1979,[2] she grew up in Montreal's northern neighbourhood of Ahuntsic.[3] Joly's father is Clément Joly, an accountant who was president of the Liberal Party's finance committee in Quebec and manager of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority from 2002 to 2007. Her stepmother, Carole-Marie Allard, is a lawyer and journalist, who was an MP representing Laval—East from 2000 to 2004.

Education and career

After completing her Bachelor of Laws degree 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 Brasenose College, Oxford, where she received a Magister Juris in comparative and public law in 2003.[4] Joly also interned at Radio-Canada, in 2007.[5]

At the beginning of her career, Joly practiced 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.[6] 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.[7]

In 2010, she became the first Quebecer to receive the Arnold Edinborough award, which recognizes philanthropic involvement within the Canadian cultural community.[8]

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.[9] She is also a member of the collective group Sortie 13, for which she wrote "Les villes au pouvoir ou comment relancer le monde municipal québécois".[10]

Political career

Municipal campaign

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Joly and Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba in Phnom Penh, 2022

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 per cent of the votes, finishing six points behind the winner, Denis Coderre. However, she finished ahead of several more established challengers.[11]

Federal politics

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.[12] Joly won the riding with 47.5 per cent of the vote, unseating incumbent Maria Mourani.[13]

In Cabinet

After the election, Joly was named as the minister of Canadian heritage as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new government.[14] On August 28, 2018, Joly was named to the tourism, official languages, and La Francophonie portfolio.[15]

She assumed the position of Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages on December 13, 2019. Her mandate was marked by the introduction of separate regional development agencies for Western Canada: Canada Economic Development for the Prairies (PrairieCan)[16] and Canada Economic Development for the Pacific (PacifiCan).[17]

On June 15, 2021, she introduced Bill C-32 in the House of Commons, an Act to achieve substantive equality of English and French and to strengthen the Official Languages Act.[18] The first reform since 1988, Joly's modernization was intended to ensure that the government's broad range of measures in support of official languages responded to and adapted to the challenges faced by these languages in the various regions of the country.[19]

Minister of Foreign Affairs

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Joly with James Cleverly, Annalena Baerbock, Yoshimasa Hayashi and Antony Blinken at the 59th Munich Security Conference, 2023

Joly took office as Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 26, 2021.[20] On December 20, 2021, Joly announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19.[21]

Amidst global concerns about a buildup of Russian troops on the country's eastern border,[22][23][24] she visited Ukraine in January 2022.[25] She visited again on May 8, 2022 when she accompanied Trudeau on an unannounced visit to Kyiv to reopen the Canadian embassy amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One year after the invasion began, she touted her government's efforts to promote regime change in Russia.[26]

In May 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan voiced his opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, accusing the two countries of tolerating groups which Turkey classifies as terrorist organizations, including the Kurdish militant groups PKK and YPG and the supporters of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based Muslim cleric accused by Turkey of orchestrating a failed 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.[27] Joly held talks with Turkey to convince the Turkish government of the need for two Nordic nations integration.[28]

During the March 2023 House of Commons committee studying Chinese election interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, Joly accused China of 'trying to sow division in many democracies' and suggested ways foreign meddling could be hindered in the future. [29]

Following a vote on the Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang, it was reported in May 2023 that Conservative MP Michael Chong's family in Hong Kong was targeted, including by a Chinese diplomat named Zhao Wei. Wei was later declared persona non grata by Joly.[30][31]

Electoral record

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Canadian federal election, 2015
Party Candidate Votes % ∆% Expenditures
Liberal Mélanie Joly 26,026 46.8 +15.7 $149,387.67
New Democratic Maria Mourani 16,684 30.0 +0.1 $86,722.49
Bloc Québécois Nicolas Bourdon 7,346 13.2 -15.1 $27,931.96
Conservative Wiliam Moughrabi 4,051 7.3 -1.3 $12,346.58
Green Gilles Mercier 1,175 2.1 +0.7 –
Rhinoceros Catherine Gascon-David 285 0.5 – –
Total valid votes/Expense limit – 100.0     $220,041.13
Total rejected ballots – – –
Turnout – – –
Eligible voters 82,863
Source: Elections Canada[32][33]

References

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