Ginette Petitpas Taylor | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Petitpas Taylor in 2023 | |
| President of the Treasury Board | |
| In office December 20, 2024 – May 13, 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau Mark Carney |
| Preceded by | Anita Anand |
| Succeeded by | Shafqat Ali |
| Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages | |
| In office November 20, 2024 – December 20, 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Randy Boissonnault |
| Succeeded by | Steven MacKinnon (Employment and Workforce Development) Rachel Bendayan (Official Languages) |
| Minister of Veterans Affairs Associate Minister of National Defence | |
| In office July 26, 2023 – December 20, 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Lawrence MacAulay |
| Succeeded by | Darren Fisher |
| Minister of Official Languages | |
| In office October 26, 2021 – July 26, 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Mélanie Joly |
| Succeeded by | Randy Boissonnault |
| Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency | |
| In office October 26, 2021 – July 26, 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Mélanie Joly |
| Succeeded by | Gudie Hutchings |
| Deputy Government Whip | |
| In office November 20, 2019 – October 26, 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Linda Lapointe |
| Succeeded by | Ruby Sahota |
| In office November 20, 2015 – January 29, 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Dave MacKenzie |
| Succeeded by | Filomena Tassi |
| Minister of Health | |
| In office August 28, 2017 – November 20, 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Jane Philpott |
| Succeeded by | Patty Hajdu |
| Parliamentary Secretary to theMinister of Finance | |
| In office January 30, 2017 – August 28, 2017 | |
| Minister | Bill Morneau |
| Preceded by | François-Philippe Champagne |
| Succeeded by | Joël Lightbound |
| Member of Parliament forMoncton—Dieppe Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe (2015–2025) | |
| Assumed office October 19, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Goguen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1968 or 1969 (age 56–57)[1] Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse | Brock Taylor |
| Residence(s) | Moncton,New Brunswick, Canada[2] |
| Alma mater | Université de Moncton |
Marie Ginette Petitpas TaylorPC MP (born 1968/1969) is aCanadian politician who has been representing theriding ofMoncton—Riverview—Dieppe in theHouse of Commons of Canada since the2015 federal election.[3] She is a member of theLiberal Party of Canada and a formerMinister of Health, and is a member of the Canadian Branch of theCommonwealth Parliamentary Association as well as the CanadianNATO Parliamentary Association.[4]
Petitpas Taylor grew up inDieppe, New Brunswick and graduated from theUniversité de Moncton with a bachelor's degree in social work.[5]
From 2004 to 2008, she was the chairwoman of theNew Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women, and has held a variety of other positions, including the coordinator for the Victim's Services Program of the local detachment of theRoyal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).[6]
She won the Liberal Party's nomination forMoncton—Riverview—Dieppe on March 28, 2015, and won the riding in the election held on October 19, 2015.[7]
On December 2, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of Petitpas Taylor as deputy governmentwhip. On February 15, 2016, Petitpas Taylor was sworn in as a Member of theQueen's Privy Council for Canada according to her duties as Deputy Government Whip.[8]
She then succeededJane Philpott asMinister of Health in a cabinet shuffle on August 28, 2017.[9][10]
She was re-elected in the 2019 federal election, and appointed Deputy Government Whip (for the second time) as well as a member of theBoard of Internal Economy.[11] She was re-elected in the 2021 federal election.
Petitpas Taylor stepped in asMinister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages following the resignation ofRandy Boissonnault on November 20, 2024.[12]
On December 16, 2024, strikers from theCanadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) protested at Petitpas Taylor'sMoncton office in response to the Liberal government's motion to order them back to work. The RCMP was called to the scene but made no comment. Local union head Line Doucet indicated she spoke with and expressed her disappointment to Petitpas Taylor the previous day.[13]
Following the resignation ofChrystia Freeland as deputy prime minister and finance minister, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet on December 20, 2024. Petitpas Taylor was moved out of the three roles she held at the time - Minister of Veterans Affairs (which includes Associate Minister of National Defence); Minister of Official Languages; and Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour - and was appointedPresident of the Treasury Board.[14]
Petitpas Taylor continued in that role inMark Carney's30th Canadian Ministry. After being reelected in the2025 Canadian federal election in April, she was shuffled out of cabinet on May 13.[15]
| 2025 Canadian federal election:Moncton—Dieppe | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Ginette Petitpas Taylor | 30,215 | 63.00 | +12.97 | ||||
| Conservative | Jocelyn Dionne | 14,974 | 31.22 | +8.63 | ||||
| New Democratic | Serge Landry | 1,775 | 3.70 | −13.10 | ||||
| Green | Marshall Dunn | 994 | 2.07 | −2.19 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 47,958 | 99.26 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 356 | 0.74 | +0.00 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,314 | 71.05 | +9.95 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 68,004 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional hold | Swing | +2.17 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[16][17] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election:Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ginette Petitpas Taylor | 22,460 | 49.08 | +6.13 | $52,170.34 | |||
| Conservative | Darlene Smith | 10,692 | 23.36 | -0.18 | $75,384.79 | |||
| New Democratic | Serge Landry | 7,774 | 16.99 | +5.1 | $2,719.74 | |||
| People's | Lorilee Carrier | 2,901 | 6.34 | +3.91 | $0.00 | |||
| Green | Richard Dunn | 1,935 | 4.23 | -13.69 | $13,859.09 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 45,762 | – | – | $108,536.34 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 61.40 | -8.22 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 74,652 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | +3.16 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[18] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election:Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ginette Petitpas Taylor | 22,261 | 42.95 | -14.80 | $57,476.19 | |||
| Conservative | Sylvie Godin-Charest | 12,200 | 23.54 | +2.08 | $71,897.56 | |||
| Green | Claire Kelly | 9,287 | 17.92 | +13.31 | $19,174.41 | |||
| New Democratic | Luke MacLaren | 6,164 | 11.89 | -4.29 | $2,074.25 | |||
| People's | Stephen Driver | 1,258 | 2.43 | none listed | ||||
| Animal Protection | Brad MacDonald | 373 | 0.72 | $2,145.15 | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Rhys Williams | 285 | 0.55 | $1,661.07 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 51,828 | 99.24 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 396 | 0.76 | +0.17 | |||||
| Turnout | 52,224 | 69.63 | -3.74 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,006 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | -8.44 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[19][20] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election:Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ginette Petitpas Taylor | 30,054 | 57.75 | +27.25 | $63,968.39 | |||
| Conservative | Robert Goguen | 11,168 | 21.46 | -15.30 | $94,944.45 | |||
| New Democratic | Luc LeBlanc | 8,420 | 16.18 | -12.28 | $33,592.43 | |||
| Green | Luc Melanson | 2,399 | 4.61 | +0.33 | $9,724.74 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 52,041 | 100.00 | $204,679.96 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 311 | 0.59 | -0.13 | |||||
| Turnout | 52,352 | 73.37 | +8.20 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 71,350 | |||||||
| Liberalgain fromConservative | Swing | +21.28 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[21][22] | ||||||||
said the 48-year-old, Dieppe, N.B. born-and-raised Ms. Petitpas Taylor