Carole-Marie Allard

Carole-Marie Allard
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Laval East
In office 2000–2004
Preceded by	Maud Debien
Succeeded by	District abolished in 2003
Personal details
Born	(1949-09-06) September 6, 1949 Dolbeau, Quebec
Political party	Liberal

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 Canadian Heritage in the government of Justin Trudeau.

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.