Patricia Lattanzio | |
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| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice andAttorney General of Canada | |
| Assumed office June 5, 2025 | |
| Member of theHouse of Commons of Canada | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Nicola Di Iorio |
| Constituency | Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel |
| Montreal City Councillor forSaint-Léonard-Est | |
| In office November 15, 2015 – 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Domenico Moschella |
| Succeeded by | Angela Gentile |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Other political affiliations | Ensemble Montréal |
| Residence | Saint-Léonard, Quebec[1] |
| Alma mater | McGill University University of Quebec at Montreal University of Montreal |
Patricia Lattanzio is a Canadian politician and lawyer of Italian descent, who was elected to theHouse of Commons of Canada in the2019 Canadian federal election and re-elected in the2021 Canadian federal election. She represents the electoral district ofSaint-Léonard—Saint-Michel as a member of theLiberal Party of Canada.
She previously served onMontreal City Council, first winning her seat in a by-election on November 15, 2015,[2] and was subsequently re-elected in the2017 municipal election.
She served on theEnglish Montreal School Board EMSB in 2007, and was re-elected in 2014. She was also the chair of theComité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal.[3]
Lattanzio grew up in Saint-Léonard, in the riding she now represents in the House of Commons. As a young woman, she became involved inMichel Bissonnet's 1978 mayoral campaign in Saint-Léonard. She continued to volunteer on the subsequent electoral campaigns of Michel Bissonnet as MNA for the constituency ofJeanne-Mance–Viger.
She pursued studies atMcGill University where she received a bachelor's degree with honours in political science. Later, she obtained a bachelor's degree in law from theUniversity of Quebec at Montreal and a certificate in law from theUniversity of Montreal. Lattanzio has been a member of the Quebec bar since 1990 and has practiced in the field of civil law for over 29 years.
In 2004, she joined the governing board of École Honoré-Mercier, her children's elementary school. In 2007, she was elected school board commissioner for the Rivière-des-Prairies region at theEnglish Montreal School Board, the largest English-language school board in Quebec. In 2014, she was elected to the same position, this time as the representative for the riding of Saint-Léonard. She was also voted president of the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal, an organization run jointly by all of the school boards in the Montreal region.
In 2015, Lattanzio was elected city councillor for Saint-Léonard East in a by-election under the banner of Team Denis Coderre. She was re-elected as city councillor in the 2017 municipal election.
In 2019, she became the Liberal candidate for the riding of Saint-Léonard—St-Michel and was elected with the largest majority in the province of Quebec.
On January 20, 2022, she was appointed a member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, NSICOP, and on January 29, 2025 was appointed Chair of the Committee by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.[4] She has also been appointed as a member of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage since February 14, 2024.[5]
MP Patricia Lattanzio is Vice-President of the Quebec caucus. Additionally, in March 2024, she was elected as vice-chair of the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas (CPAM) and in April 2024, as vice-president of the Canada-Italy Interparliamentary Group (CAIT).[6]
She previously served on the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic from April 20, 2020 to June 18, 2020, then on the Standing Committee of Official Languages from February 5, 2020 to September 25, 2023, as well as the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics from October 5, 2020 to August 15, 2021 and the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations from September 25, 2023 to February 14, 2024.[7]
In 2021, MP Patricia Lattanzio presented a Private Member’s Bill, C-252, The Child Health Protection Act. The bill aims to prohibit the marketing of foods and beverages that contain excessive amounts of sugar, salt and saturated fat to children under the age of 13. On October 25, 2023, the bill was adopted by a majority of votes in the House of Commons, and is currently in the Senate awaiting its adoption.[8]
As a member of the Official Languages Committee, she and other members of Parliament pressuredStatistics Canada to amend the2021 census to include questions used to identify official language minority communities. These questions were ultimately included in the 2021 census.
Lattanzio is fluent in three languages: English, French and Italian.
| 2025 Canadian federal election:Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Patricia Lattanzio | 26,833 | 65.34 | −4.26 | ||||
| Conservative | Panagiota Koroneos | 8,457 | 20.59 | +10.13 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Laurie Lelacheur | 2,938 | 7.15 | −0.83 | ||||
| New Democratic | Marwan El Attar | 2,450 | 5.97 | −2.23 | ||||
| People's | Caroline Mailloux | 388 | 0.94 | −2.82 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 41,066 | 97.73 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 955 | 2.27 | ||||||
| Turnout | 42,021 | 58.23 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 72,160 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional hold | Swing | −7.20 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election:Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Patricia Lattanzio | 29,010 | 69.40 | +8.07 | $55,649.86 | |||
| Conservative | Louis Ialenti | 4,381 | 10.50 | -1.44 | $0.00 | |||
| New Democratic | Alicia Di Tullio | 3,460 | 8.30 | +1.78 | $1,225.49 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Laurence Massey | 3,395 | 8.10 | -1.48 | $2,242.01 | |||
| People's | Daniele Ritacca | 1,568 | 3.70 | +2.60 | $386.31 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 41,814 | 100.0 | $108,432.19 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 890 | N/A | ||||||
| Turnout | 42,704 | 56.45 | -3.93 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 74,279 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | +4.76 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[11] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election:Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Patricia Lattanzio | 27,866 | 61.33 | -3.40 | $39,698.45 | |||
| Conservative | Ilario Maiolo | 5,423 | 11.94 | +0.81 | $50,901.27 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Dominique Mougin | 4,351 | 9.58 | +2.39 | none listed | |||
| Independent | Hassan Guillet | 3,061 | 6.74 | – | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Paulina Ayala | 2,964 | 6.52 | -8.33 | $1,299.32 | |||
| Green | Alessandra Szilagyi | 1,183 | 2.60 | 0.79 | $512.28 | |||
| People's | Tina Di Serio | 501 | 1.10 | – | $1,392.50 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Garnet Colly | 85 | 0.19 | -0.10 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes | 45,434 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 993 | 2.19 | ||||||
| Turnout | 46,427 | 60.38 | +1.16 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 76,885 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | -2.11 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[12][13] | ||||||||