Canadian politician

Carole-Marie Allard (born September 6, 1949) is a former Canadian politician who served as a Liberal member of Canada's House of Commons. She represented the riding of Laval East from 2000 to 2004. She was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, and a member of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and the Vice-Chair of the Special Committee on Non-medical use of drugs. She lost the 2004 election to Robert Carrier of the Bloc Québécois in the riding of Alfred-Pellan.

She is a lawyer, former press attaché, former designer, organizer and presenter of media management training programs, a former spokesperson for a corporation, and she is a former journalist, writer and producer.

She is the stepmother of Mélanie Joly who is a member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Ahuntsic-Cartierville and also serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Justin Trudeau.

Partial electoral record

Books

• Allard, Carole-Marie (1990). Lavalin:: les ficelles du pouvoir. Collection Gens du pays. Chicoutimi, Québec: Éditions JCL. pp.:317 p.:: ill., 23 cm. ISBN:2920176897.
• Allard, Carole-Marie (c. 1992). L'Affaire Claire Lortie:: l'histoire du congélateur. Collection Énigmes. Chicoutimi, Québec: JCL. pp.:279 p.:: ill., portr., 22 cm. ISBN:2894311079.

External links

• Carole-Marie Allard – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Carole-Marie Allard". Archived from the original on 2013-05-29.