Maria Mourani

Maria Mourani
Maria Mourani
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Ahuntsic
Incumbent
Assumed office
2006
Preceded by Eleni Bakopanos
Personal details
Born May 19, 1969 (1969-05-19) (age 42)
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Political party Bloc Québécois
Residence Montreal
Profession Criminologist, probation officer, rehabilitation counsellor, researcher, sociologist, teaching assistant

Maria Mourani (born May 19, 1969 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire), of Lebanese origin, is the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament in the federal riding of Ahuntsic in Canada. She was elected in the 2006 Canadian federal election and reelected in 2008 and 2011. She was consequently assigned as the Bloc Québécois Critic on Public Security and on the Status of Women in the Canadian Parliament.

She immigrated to Canada in 1988.

In the past, she has held positions as rehabilitation consultant, professor, researcher, and probation officer. She is a former probation officer for Correctional Service of Canada. She is a former member of the Saint-Laurent volunteer action, Henri-Beaulieu school establishment council, Founoun artistic journal, Quebec Association of Criminologists, and the Reflection Committee and Social Action. She is the former President of the Bloc's citizen's committee and on the Parti Québécois riding executive in the provincial riding of Acadie and the Committee director of the PQ orientation congress. She was also a freelance writer for L'Avenir.

In the 2003 Quebec election, she ran unsuccessfully as the PQ candidate in Acadie.

Maria Mourani is also the author of La face cachée des gangs de rue (October 2006), a book about street gangs in Montreal. She followed it up with a second book on street gang networks in Canada, United States and Central America entitled Gangs de rue inc. (September 2009).

She is co-founder and co-president of the Canadian Lebanese Friendship Association in the Canadian Parliament as well as the President of the Algerian Canadian Friendship Association.

On 15 August 2008, she was awarded an honorary medal in Beirut, Lebanon by the World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU).

After the 2011 federal election Mourani was one of only four Bloc Quebecois MPs left in the House of Commons and the only Bloc member from the Montreal area in the 41st Parliament.

She has declared her candidacy in the Bloc Québécois leadership election being held to choose a successor to Gilles Duceppe and is running on a platform of making the Bloc more independent from the Parti Québécois.[1]

Electoral record

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
     Bloc Québécois Maria Mourani 14,908 31.8 -
     New Democrat Chantal Reeves 14,200 30.3 -
     Liberal Noushig Eloyan 13,087 27.9 -
     Conservative Constantin Kiryakidis 3,770 8.0 -
     Green Ted Kouretas 620 1.3 -
     Rhinoceros Jean-Olivier Berthiaume 299 0.6 -
Total valid votes/Expense limit 46,884 100.00

Source: Elections Canada, 2011 General Election Results, Ahuntsic

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
     Bloc Québécois Maria Mourani 18,815 39.48 +0.57 $53,286
     Liberal Eleni Bakopanos 18,392 38.59 +1.30 $51,887
     Conservative Jean Précourt 4,937 10.36 -1.89 $56,496
     New Democrat Alexandra Bélec 4,276 8.97 +1.07 $6,663
     Green Lynette Tremblay 1,228 2.57 -1.10 $20
Total valid votes/Expense limit 47,648 100.00
Total rejected ballots 523 1.09
Turnout 48,181 65.64%
     Bloc Québécois hold Swing -0.40
Canadian federal election, 2006
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
     Bloc Québécois Maria Mourani 19,428 38.91 -2.34 $69,180
     Liberal Eleni Bakopanos 18,594 37.24 -6.51 $64,168
     Conservative Etienne Morin 6,089 12.25 +7.01 $16,100
     New Democrat Caroline Desrosiers 3,948 7.90 +1.70 $4,702
     Green Lynette Tremblay 1,836 3.67 +0.99 $411
Total valid votes/Expense limit 49,895 100.00 $77,453
     Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal Swing -2.1
2003 Quebec provincial election : Acadie edit
Party Candidate Votes % +/-
     Liberal (x)Yvan Bordeleau 23,211 70.39
     Parti Québécois Maria Mourani 6,702 20.33
     Action démocratique Jean-Pierre Chamoun 2,253 6.83
     Bloc pot Jonathan Bérubé 440 1.33
     Independent André Parizeau 161 0.49
     Marxist-Leninist Linda Sullivan 111 0.34
     Equality Marina Paümann 95 0.29
Total valid votes 32,973 100.00
Rejected and declined votes 316
Turnout 33,289 65.66
Electors on the lists 50,699

References

  1. ^ Authier, Philip (October 4, 2011). "Daniel Paillé throws hat into Bloc ring". Montreal Gazette. http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Daniel+Paill%C3%A9+throws+into+Bloc+ring/5496721/story.html. Retrieved October 9, 2011. 

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