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Marjorie Michel () is a Haitian-Canadian politician who has served as
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since 2025 in
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's cabinet. A member of the
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, she has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau since 2025, succeeding former Prime Minister
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.


Political career

She has a background in social and organizational psychology. She holds a master's degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from the University of Louvain in
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. Michel is a former student of the Sainte Rose de Lima Institution in
Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
. Michel has been active in politics since the early 2000s. She was Director of Parliamentary Affairs for
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and former political
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to Haitian MP
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. She was General Coordinator of the Annual
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(OAS) in 1995, a position for which she received a distinction from the
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. In 2009, she was appointed the head of the Ministry on the Status and Rights of Women (MCFDF). Michel served as Chief of Staff to the
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and
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in the Liberal government. During the
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and
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campaigns, she served as the Director of Campaign Operations in Quebec for the Liberal Party. She also served as the Quebec campaign co-chair in the
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. Michel became Deputy Chief of Staff in the office of Justin Trudeau in 2021 becoming the first black person to hold the position. In October 2024, she was appointed the new deputy national campaign director. She left the role weeks later. She was named the
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candidate for Papineau and was elected in the
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to replace
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.


Personal life

Michel is of Haitian descent. She is the daughter of Victoire Marie-Rose Sterlin and former Prime Minister of Haiti Smarck Michel.


Electoral record


References

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