Julie Dzerowicz MP
Member of Parliament forDavenport
Incumbent
Assumed office October 19, 2015
Preceded by	Andrew Cash
Personal details
Born	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Residence(s)	Brockton Village,[1] Toronto, Ontario
Alma mater	McGill University (BCom) University of British Columbia (MBA)

Juliana Roma "Julie" DzerowiczMP (/ˈdzɛrəwɪts/^[2]) is a Canadian politician. A member of theLiberal Party, she has represented the Torontoriding ofDavenport in theHouse of Commons of Canada since her initial election in2015, and was reelected in2019,2021, and2025. She is a member of theNATO Parliamentary Assembly and serves as one of its vice presidents. Since 2025 she has also served at the Chair of the House of CommonsStanding Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, and as the elected Chair of the Toronto Caucus of Liberal MPs.

Dzerowicz was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Ukrainian father and a Mexican mother, Maria Amparo Lizarraga Zataran, from Recodo.^[3][4][5] She graduated fromMcGill University with a bachelor of commerce in 1994.^[6] She completed her final term atInstitut Commercial de Nancy in France. Dzerowicz was heavily involved in leadership roles at McGill, and served as the vice-president internal of theStudents' Society of McGill University.

She received the Scarlet Key Award in 1994, which is awarded to "students who have demonstrated indubitable qualities of leadership, unselfishness and perseverance by their outstanding contributions to the McGill community."^[7][8]

After completing a master of business administration at theUniversity of British Columbia (UBC), where she served on the UBC Senate, Dzerowicz finished her degree at theLondon Business School.

Prior to seeking elected office, Dzerowicz worked in both the public service and the private sector. In the Ontario government, she served for approximately four years as a senior policy adviser, and in 2011 she worked as a chief of staff.^[9]

She spent more than two decades in senior roles in investment banking, commercial banking, and biotechnology; while at the Bank of Montreal she contributed to the development and launch of Canada’s email money transfer service.^[10]

In 2010, she co-foundedProject Neutral, a Toronto non-profit that helps neighbourhoods measure and reduce carbon emissions.^[11] She was also a founding board member ofJUMP Math, a Canadian charity promoting numeracy education.^[12]

Dzerowicz was Vice-Chair of the Ontario Liberal Party’s 2011 platform committee.^[10]

After a lengthy nomination process in 2015, Dzerowicz successfully secured the Liberal Party of Canada's nomination as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Davenport. In October 2015, she became the first female Member of Parliament for Davenport.^[13]

In 2017, Dzerowicz was criticized for a copy-paste social media post based on a template sent to Liberal Caucus members expressing LGBTQ solidarity, where she forgot to insert the name of her riding into the post.^[14]

In February 2021, Dzerowicz introduced a private member's bill, Bill C-273, into the House of Commons of Canada calling upon the Minister of Finance to develop a national strategy for a guaranteed basic income.^[15]

In June 2021, Dzerowicz invited constituents to ask her questions via theReddit discussion website.^[16] During the online conversation she was criticized for wrongly stating on Twitter that the2020 Port of Montreal strike had lasted 2.5 years, and for another tweet in whichThe Hill Times stated she was mocking a constituent who asked about the Canadian government's legal fight with survivors of Canada'sresidential school system.^[16] Dzerowicz's calls for more funding for affordable housing anduniversal basic income were better received.^[16] Dzerowicz did not answer questions about theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission wholesale internet rates or the government's change of policy away fromelectoral reform.^[16]

Following the2021 Canadian Federal Election, Dzerowicz was re-elected to represent Davenport.^[17] Ajudicial recount was initiated byElections Canada, at the request of theNew Democratic Party (NDP) because of the margin of victory was under 100 votes over the NDP'sAlejandra Bravo.^[18] With the recount in progress, it became obvious that Dzerowicz won by 76 votes and the recount was stopped soon after it started.^[19]

In December 2021, Dzerowicz, acting as the chair of the Liberal Immigration caucus, responded to criticism from within her own party about delays to processing immigration claims, stating that work needs to be done and committing to future improvements.^[20]

In March 2024, Dzerowicz broke ranks withher party by calling for anarms embargo on Israel, citing calls from constituents and a February 23 statement from theOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which warned that arms exports to Israel could violate international humanitarian law if used inGaza. She stressed the need to protect innocent Palestinian civilians.^[21]

In June 2024, Dzerowicz’s office in Davenport was vandalized with red paint, and the words “Rafah is burning, Toronto will too” were spray-painted on the building.^[22]

• Official website
• http://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Julie-Dzerowicz
• Julie Dzerowicz – Parliament of Canada biography

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