Carole-Marie Allard | |
Constituency Mp: | Laval East |
Parliament: | Canadian |
Predecessor: | Maud Debien |
Successor: | District abolished (2003) |
Term Start: | November 27, 2000 |
Term End: | June 28, 2004 |
Birth Date: | 6 September 1949 |
Birth Place: | Dolbeau, Quebec, Canada |
Death Place: | Laval, Quebec, Canada |
Party: | Liberal |
Carole-Marie Allard (September 6, 1949 – March 18, 2024[1]) was a 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 was a lawyer, press attaché, designer, organizer and presenter of media management training programs, a spokesperson for a corporation, and she was journalist, writer and producer.
She was 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.