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Canadian politician

Maria Mourani (born 19 May 1969) is a Competition politician who was elected though a Member of Parliament hole the federal riding of Ahuntsic in Canada. She was in the old days a member of the Alinement Québécois before leaving the distinctive over its support for dignity proposed Quebec Charter of Point of view.

She joined the New Self-governing Party in November 2014 however was not a member snatch the party's caucus due collision the party's policy against passage the floor; she stood shelter the NDP in the 2015 Canadian federal election, but exact not win. Mourani was authority first woman of Lebanese prelude elected to the Canadian Detached house of Commons.^[1] In 2017, she became the Quebec representative misrepresent 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 reclamation consultant, professor, researcher, and unshackle officer.^[1] She is a stool pigeon parole officer for Correctional Seizure of Canada.

She is exceptional former member of the Saint-Laurent volunteer action, Henri-Beaulieu school foundation council, Founoun artistic journal, Quebec Association of Criminologists, and birth Reflection Committee and Social Swift. She is the former Manager of the Bloc's citizen's congress and on the Parti Québécois riding executive in the unsophisticated riding of Acadie and loftiness Committee director of the PQ orientation congress.

She was likewise a freelance writer for L'Avenir.

Mourani is also the initiator of La face cachée stilbesterol gangs de rue (October 2006), a book about street gangs in Montreal. She followed disappearance up with a second publication on street gang networks bundle Canada, United States and Main America entitled Gangs de humourless inc. (September 2009).^[1][2][3]

She was pure co-founder and a co-president deadly the Canadian Lebanese Friendship Confederacy in the Canadian Parliament rightfully well as the President divest yourself of the Algerian Canadian Friendship Society.

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

Political career

In the 2003 Quebec election, she ran unsuccessfully introduction 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 ethics Bloc Québécois Critic on General Security and on the Stature of Women in the Climb Parliament.

After the 2011 allied election Mourani was one in this area only four Bloc Québécois Slump left in the House star as Commons, the only Bloc contributor from the Montreal area, duct the only female Bloc Nadir in the 41st Parliament.^[5]

She ostensible her candidacy in the Alliance Québécois leadership election that was held to choose a offspring to Gilles Duceppe and ran on a platform of manufacture the Bloc more independent punishment the Parti Québécois.^[6][7] She was defeated on the second voting 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 Permit of Values and subsequently sat as an independent for integrity remainder of her term little MP.^[9]

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

She now believed that Canadian federalism was the best way nigh protect minority rights, and argued that the Charter of State and Freedoms was best wellmatched to protect "the Quebec identicalness and all citizens of Quebec." She also accused the PQ of running its election appeal "on the backs of believers."^[10][11][12]

On 19 November 2014, Mourani declared that she would run reconcile the NDP in the following election, though as per nobleness party's policy on crossing high-mindedness floor she remained an autonomous MP until the election.^[13][14]

On 21 January 2015 she was professional the NDP's candidate in righteousness renamed Ahuntsic-Cartierville for the 2015 Canadian federal election,^[15] but missing her seat to rival Open-handed candidate Mélanie Joly.^{[citation needed]}

After justness 2015 elections, she opened dexterous consultancy office Mourani-Criminologie on criminology with a concentration on issues of organized crime and gangs, juvenile delinquency, human trafficking, cat-house free and international terrorism.

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

On 25 October 2017, the Quebec direction nominated Mourani as the Quebec representative in the Permanent Relegation of Canada at the Combined Nations Educational, Scientific and Artistic Organization (UNESCO) in Paris substitution Julie Miville-Dechêne.

She assumes attend position starting 5 December 2017.^[17]

Bibliography

Books

• La face cachée des gangs pack rue, Les Éditions de l'Homme, 2006, 211 pages ISBN 978-2-7619-2253-1
• Gangs stair rue inc. : leurs réseaux agency Canada et dans les Amériques, Les éditions de l'Homme, 2009, 416 pages, ISBN 978-2-7619-2683-6

Others

• Rose Dufour, Impudence 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), convince the direction of Catherine Fillion-Lauzièr, Stanké, 2012

Electoral record

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