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Mélanie Joly Net Worth 2022, Age, Husband, Children, Family, Salary, Height

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Introduction

Mélanie Joly is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 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. Joly graduated from Université de Montréal and the University of Oxford.

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Early life

NameMélanie Joly
Net Worth$4 million
OccupationPolitician, Lawyer
Height1.68m
Age43 years
HusbandFélix Marzell
Mélanie Joly net worth 2022

Mélanie Joly PC MP was born on January 16, 1979 (age 43 years) in Montreal, Quebec at Fleury Hospital, Canada. she grew up in Montreal’s northern neighborhood of Ahuntsic. 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 and husband of Carole-Marie Allard, a lawyer, journalist, and an MP representing Laval—East from 2000 to 2004.

Career

Mélanie Joly became a member of the Barreau du Québec after completing her degree in law at the Université de Montréal in 2001. She subsequently received the Chevening scholarship and continued her studies at the University of Oxford, where she received a Magister Juris in comparative and public law in 2003. Joly also interned at Radio-Canada, in 2007.

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Joly practiced law at two major Montreal law firms, Stikeman Elliott and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg at the beginning of her career. 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. 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.

She was appointed to head the Quebec Advisory Committee for Justin Trudeau’s leadership campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013. Along with her colleagues, she founded Generation of Ideas, which is a political forum for 25- to 35-year-olds. She is also a member of the collective group Sortie 13, where she penned a contribution entitled “Les villes au pouvoir ou comment relancer le monde municipal québécois”.

Political career

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Mélanie Joly and her husband Félix Marzell

Mélanie Joly announced in June 2013 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% of the votes, finishing six points behind the winner, Denis Coderre. However, she finished ahead of several more established challengers.

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Joly left municipal politics in 2015 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. Joly won the riding with 47.5% of the vote, unseating incumbent Maria Mourani. After the election, Joly was named as the minister of Canadian Heritage as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 29th Canadian Ministry. On August 28, 2018, Joly was shuffled to the tourism, official languages, and La Francophonie portfolio.

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) and Canada Economic Development for the Pacific (PacifiCan).

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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. First reform since 1988, the Minister’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.

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Mélanie Joly took office as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 26, 2021. On December 20, 2021, Joly announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19. Amidst global concerns about a buildup of Russian troops on the country’s eastern border, she visited Ukraine in January 2022.

Husband

Mélanie Joly is married to Félix Marzell, they had their weding in the 2000s. Her husband is a business executive in Montreal. However, in addition to her professional activities, Joly is involved in the philanthropic sector. In 2010, she became the first Quebecker to receive the Arnold Edinborough Award, which recognizes philanthropic involvement within the Canadian cultural community. To this day, she is a spokesperson for Logis Rose-Virginie and ambassador for La rue des Femmes.

Mélanie Joly net worth

How much is Mélanie Joly worth? Mélanie Joly’s net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her salary for 2022 ranges from $162,574 to $475,483, but with bonuses, benefits, and various other compensation, she made significantly more than her salary in the year 2020. Joly’s main source of income is from her career as a politician and lawyer. Her successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is of the richest and most influential politicians in Canada.
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