Lucille Collard
MPP
Collard in 2020
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
for Ottawa—Vanier
Assumed office
February 27, 2020
Preceded byNathalie Des Rosiers
Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario School Trustee
In office
December 1, 2010 – February 27, 2020
Preceded byDenis Chartrand
Succeeded byWarsama Abdourahman Aden
ConstituencyWard 12
Personal details
Political partyLiberal
Residence(s)Vanier, Ontario, Canada[1]
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer

Lucille Collard MPP is a Canadian politician who has been a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) since 2020. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, Collard represents Ottawa—Vanier in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Background

Collard completed a law degree at the University of Ottawa in 1999 and pursued a public service career as a lawyer. She practised international trade law with the NAFTA Secretariat, administrative and regulatory law with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and public law as a federal government civil litigator at the Federal Court of Canada.[2]

Collard is a mother of four children and has reported education as a personal interest. In 2003, she launched a pilot francophone school with 18 students – Trille des Bois – which was officially opened in 2010. Today, 600 students attend Trille des Bois.[3]

Political career

Trustee

Collard first ran for public office in 2010 and was elected as a School Trustee for the Ottawa-Vanier, Ottawa-Rockcliffe region. She was re-elected in 2014 and 2018. Following her second re-election, she was elected as chair of the board of the Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario.[4]

Provincial politics

In early 2020, Collard won the Liberal nomination for the by-election to the provincial electoral district of Ottawa-Vanier, which was vacated by Nathalie Des Rosiers. She was elected on February 7, 2020, with 52.2% of the vote.[5]

In the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, she serves as the Liberal opposition critic for the following ministerial portfolios:

She was re-elected in the 2022 Ontario general election.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Search For Contributions". Elections Ontario. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  2. ↑ Government of Canada, Shared Services Canada (2017-10-01). "Person Information". geds-sage.gc.ca. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Lucille Collard". Rogers TV / TV Rogers. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ Blair Crawford, "Lawyer, school trustee Lucille Collard wins provincial Liberal nomination in Ottawa-Vanier". Ottawa Citizen, September 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ Robert Benzie, "Liberals easily retain two seats in Ottawa byelections". Toronto Star, February 27, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Del Duca Appoints New Critics". Ontario Liberal Party. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Liberal Lucille Collard re-elected in Ottawa–Vanier". CBC News. Ottawa, Ontario. June 2, 2022. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
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