Carole-Marie Allard

Carole-Marie Allard (September 6, 1949 – March 18, 2024^[1]) was a 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.

Carole-Marie Allard
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Laval East
In office November 27, 2000 – June 28, 2004
Preceded by	Maud Debien
Succeeded by	District abolished (2003)
Personal details
Born	(1949-09-06)September 6, 1949 Dolbeau, Quebec, Canada
Died	March 18, 2024(2024-03-18) (aged 74) Laval, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Relations	Mélanie Joly (stepdaughter)

She was a lawyer, press attaché, designer, organizer and presenter of media management training programs, a spokesperson for a corporation, and she was journalist, writer and producer.

She was the stepmother of Mélanie Joly who is a member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Ahuntsic-Cartierville and also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Justin Trudeau.

Partial electoral record

v t e 2004 Canadian federal election: Alfred-Pellan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Robert Carrier	26,239	49.20	+6.65	$38,963
	Liberal	Carole-Marie Allard	21,116	39.59	−5.18	$70,978
	Conservative	Rosane Raymond	2,703	5.07	−3.21	$10,199
	New Democratic	Benjamin Le Bel	1,849	3.47	+2.48	$2,108
	Green	Louis-Philippe Verenka	1,132	2.12	+0.98	$0
	Independent	Yves Denois	204	0.38	–	none listed
	Independent	Régent Millette	89	0.17	−0.27	none listed
Total valid votes			53,232	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,128	2.07
Turnout			54,460	67.95
Eligible voters			80,148
	Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+5.92
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.

v t e 2000 Canadian federal election: Laval East
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Carole-Marie Allard	26,018	44.77	+12.66	$69,391
	Bloc Québécois	Mathieu Alarie	24,726	42.55	+4.09	$71,179
	Progressive Conservative	André G. Plourde	2,459	4.23	−23.93	none listed
	Alliance	Rosane Raymond	2,354	4.05	–	$877
	Marijuana	Christian Lajoie	892	1.53	–	$157
	Green	Frédéric Gauvin	660	1.14	–	$108
	New Democratic	Sujata Dey	573	0.99	−0.28	none listed
	Independent	Régent Millette	255	0.44	–	none listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Gabriel Cornellier-Brunelle	178	0.31	–	$10
Total valid votes			58,115	97.4
Total rejected ballots			1,535	2.6
Turnout			59,650	68.7
Eligible voters			86,759
	Liberal gain from Bloc Québécois		Swing		+4.29
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

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.