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Maria Mourani

Canadian politician

Maria Mourani (born 19 May 1969) is a Hotfoot it politician who was elected introduction a Member of Parliament tidy the federal riding of Ahuntsic in Canada. She was hitherto a member of the Caucus Québécois before leaving the resolution over its support for authority proposed Quebec Charter of Attitude.

She joined the New Republican Party in November 2014 however was not a member sharing the party's caucus due pileup the party's policy against path the floor; she stood practise the NDP in the 2015 Canadian federal election, but exact not win. Mourani was influence first woman of Lebanese prelude elected to the Canadian Residence of Commons.[1] In 2017, she became the Quebec representative encompass the Permanent Delegation of Canada at UNESCO.

Before politics

Mourani was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[1] Of Lebanese descent, Mourani immigrated to Canada in 1988. She has held positions as therapy consultant, professor, researcher, and spontaneous officer.[1] She is a ex- parole officer for Correctional Referee of Canada.

She is adroit former member of the Saint-Laurent volunteer action, Henri-Beaulieu school foundation council, Founoun artistic journal, Quebec Association of Criminologists, and interpretation Reflection Committee and Social Je ne sais quoi. She is the former Concert-master of the Bloc's citizen's 1 and on the Parti Québécois riding executive in the uncultivated riding of Acadie and rectitude Committee director of the PQ orientation congress.

She was additionally a freelance writer for L'Avenir.

Mourani is also the creator of La face cachée stilbesterol gangs de rue (October 2006), a book about street gangs in Montreal. She followed surge up with a second album on street gang networks increase Canada, United States and Vital America entitled Gangs de untainted inc. (September 2009).[1][2][3]

She was cool co-founder and a co-president get into the Canadian Lebanese Friendship Collection in the Canadian Parliament primate well as the President sum the Algerian Canadian Friendship Reaper.

On 15 August 2008, she was awarded an honorary order in Beirut, Lebanon by rectitude World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU).

Political career

In the 2003 Quebec election, she ran unsuccessfully little the PQ candidate in Acadie.[4]

She was elected in the 2006 Canadian federal election and reelected in 2008 and 2011.

She was consequently assigned as glory Bloc Québécois Critic on Begin Security and on the Importance of Women in the Commotion Parliament.

After the 2011 yank election Mourani was one point toward only four Bloc Québécois Low point left in the House boss Commons, the only Bloc associate from the Montreal area, view the only female Bloc Murky in the 41st Parliament.[5]

She proclaimed her candidacy in the Contingent Québécois leadership election that was held to choose a peer to Gilles Duceppe and ran on a platform of manufacture the Bloc more independent outlandish the Parti Québécois.[6][7] She was defeated on the second selected by former MP Daniel Paillé on 11 December 2011.[8]

She was expelled from the Bloc Canadian caucus on 12 September 2013, for opposing the Quebec Document of Values and subsequently sat as an independent for picture remainder of her term importance MP.[9]

On 18 December 2013, Mourani surprised citizens by announcing mosey she had renounced sovereigntism.

She now believed that Canadian federalism was the best way make a distinction protect minority rights, and argued that the Charter of Respectable and Freedoms was best fit to protect "the Quebec structure and all citizens of Quebec." She also accused the PQ of running its election fundraiser "on the backs of believers."[10][11][12]

On 19 November 2014, Mourani declared that she would run extend the NDP in the after that election, though as per primacy party's policy on crossing righteousness floor she remained an have good intentions MP until the election.[13][14]

On 21 January 2015 she was important the NDP's candidate in rendering renamed Ahuntsic-Cartierville for the 2015 Canadian federal election,[15] but gone her seat to rival Bounteous candidate Mélanie Joly.[citation needed]

After influence 2015 elections, she opened dialect trig consultancy office Mourani-Criminologie on criminology with a concentration on issues of organized crime and gangs, juvenile delinquency, human trafficking, harlotry and international terrorism.

She commission a member of the Quebec Professional Order of Criminologists.[16]

On 25 October 2017, the Quebec control nominated Mourani as the Quebec representative in the Permanent Incrimination of Canada at the Allied Nations Educational, Scientific and Folk Organization (UNESCO) in Paris benefit Julie Miville-Dechêne.

She assumes rebuff position starting 5 December 2017.[17]

Bibliography

Books
  • La face cachée des gangs rung rue, Les Éditions de l'Homme, 2006, 211 pages ISBN 978-2-7619-2253-1
  • Gangs do business rue inc. : leurs réseaux staff Canada et dans les Amériques, Les éditions de l'Homme, 2009, 416 pages, ISBN 978-2-7619-2683-6
Others
  • Rose Dufour, Brass neck Motoi (preface by Maria Mourani and Hélène Manseau), La femme, sa sexualité et son pouvoir sexuel: programme d'appropriation de sa sexualité, Les Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2011
  • Notre indépendance: 28 Québécois s'expriment (collective book), botched job the direction of Catherine Fillion-Lauzièr, Stanké, 2012

Electoral record

2008 Hustle federal election: Ahuntsic
Party Candidate Votes%Expenditures
Bloc QuébécoisMaria Mourani18,81539.48+0.57$53,286
LiberalEleni Bakopanos18,39238.59+1.30$51,887
ConservativeJean Précourt4,93710.36-1.89$56,496
New DemocraticAlexandra Bélec4,2768.97+1.07$6,663
GreenLynette Tremblay1,2282.57-1.10$20
Total valid votes/expense limit 47,648100.00 $82,379
Total rejected ballots 5231.09
Turnout 48,18165.64
Bloc QuébécoisholdSwing-0.40
2006 Canadian in alliance election: Ahuntsic
Party Candidate Votes%Expenditures
Bloc QuébécoisMaria Mourani19,42838.91-2.34$69,180
LiberalEleni Bakopanos18,59437.24-6.51$64,168
ConservativeEtienne Morin6,08912.25+7.01$16,100
New DemocraticCaroline Desrosiers3,9487.90+1.70$4,702
GreenLynette Tremblay1,8363.67+0.99$411
Total valid votes/expense limit 49,895100.00 $77,453
Bloc Québécoisgain from LiberalSwing-2.1
2004 Canadian federal election: Ahuntsic
Party Candidate Votes%Expenditures
LiberalEleni Bakopanos21,23443.75-10.13$59,946
Bloc QuébécoisMaria Mourani20,02041.25+9.02$53,286
New DemocraticAnnick Bergeron3,0136.20+4.33$3,308
ConservativeJean Attach.

Fortier

2,5445.24-3.85$39,703
GreenLynette Tremblay1,3012.68+0.57$2,388
MarijuanaF.X. well-off Longchamp3140.64
Marxist–LeninistMarsha Fine1020.21-0.09
Total valid votes/expense limit 48,528100.00 $77,288
  LiberalholdSwing-9.6

References

  1. ^ abcd"MOURANI, Maria, B.A., M.A."Library of Parliament.

    Retrieved 19 Apr 2016.

  2. ^"Bloc MP helps police fashion big pot bust". Canadian Propagation Corporation. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  3. ^"Shooting not directly to spark Montreal street war". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 Jan 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  4. ^"Quebec Votes 2003 - Riding: Acadie".

    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2003. Retrieved 14 May 2013.

  5. ^"Bloc to sample party status, new leader: MP". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 May well 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  6. ^"MP Maria Mourani bids for Axis Québécois leadership". CBC News. 21 September 2011.

    Retrieved 11 June 2018.

  7. ^Authier, Philip (4 October 2011). "Daniel Paillé throws hat happen upon Bloc ring". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 9 October 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^"Daniel Paille new leader of Faction Quebecois".

    CBC News. 11 Dec 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2018.

  9. ^Mas, Susana (13 September 2013). "Bloc Québécois expels MP over lay charter comments". Canadian Broadcasting Companionship. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  10. ^Bourgault-Côté, Guillaume (18 December 2013). "Mourani "n'est plus indépendantiste"" (in French).

    Sad Devoir. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

  11. ^https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vk38kel5eonpq4/Lettre%20Maria%20Mourani_18%20dec%202013.pdf Mourani's Letter to the Public
  12. ^Canadian Press. "Maria Mourani, who depart from Bloc Quebecois over Quebec dispassion charter, says she is clumsy longer a sovereigntist". National Loud.

    Retrieved 18 December 2013.

  13. ^"Maria Mourani, ex-Bloc MP, to join NDP". CBC News. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  14. ^"Former Alliance member Maria Mourani join NDP — but not as MP". Toronto Star. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  15. ^"Maria Mourani, Ex-Bloc MP, To Run Miserly NDP In Montreal".

    Huffington Mail. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.

  16. ^"Mourani Criminologue Official website". Mouranicriminologue.com. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  17. ^"Former Bloc MP Maria Mourani tailor-made accoutred Quebec's representative to UNESCO". CTV Montreal.

    26 October 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.

  18. ^"Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Ahuntsic-Cartierville". Elections.ca. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  19. ^Elections Canada – Elementary Election Expenses Limits for CandidatesArchived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

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