Paul A. Lefebvre (born 1974) is a Canadian politician currently serving as the mayor of

Greater Sudbury Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the List of the largest cities and t ...

. He was a member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Sudbury from 2015 to 2021."Lefebvre takes Sudbury riding"
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'', October 19, 2015. Lefebvre worked as a lawyer, spending some time as counsel to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and teaching international tax law at the

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. In his business career, he was the owner of local media firm Le5 Communications, whose holdings included French-language radio and newspapers. He won the Liberal Party's nomination contest in Sudbury on March 28, 2015, over former mayor

Marianne Matichuk Marianne Matichuk is a Canadian politician who was elected mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, in the 2010 municipal election. She made history as the city's first elected female mayor and only the second serving woman mayor. Grace Hartman had ...

. In March 2021, Lefebvre announced that he would not run for a third term in the

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. He won election as mayor of Greater Sudbury in the 2022 Greater Sudbury municipal election on October 24, 2022, and took office on November 15.Tyler Clarke
"Mayor Lefebvre: ‘We must work together’"
'' Sudbury.com'', November 18, 2022.

Electoral record

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Official Website
Living people 1974 births Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Businesspeople from Greater Sudbury People from Kapuskasing Franco-Ontarian people Lawyers in Ontario Canadian radio executives University of Ottawa alumni Academic staff of the University of Ottawa University of Waterloo alumni University of Ottawa Faculty of Law alumni Mayors of Greater Sudbury 21st-century mayors of places in Ontario 21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Liberal-Ontario-MP-stub