Lucille Collard

Lucille Collard
MPP
Lucille Collard MPP
	Collard in 2020
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament; for Ottawa—Vanier
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; February 27, 2020
Preceded by	Nathalie Des Rosiers
Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario School Trustee
	In office; December 1, 2010 – February 27, 2020
Preceded by	Denis Chartrand
Succeeded by	Warsama Abdourahman Aden
Constituency	Ward 12
Personal details
Political party	Liberal
Residence(s)	Vanier, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Politician; lawyer;

Lucille Collard MPP is a Canadian politician who has been a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) since 2020. A member of the Ontario Liberal Party, Collard represents Ottawa—Vanier in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Background

Collard completed a law degree at the University of Ottawa in 1999 and pursued a public service career as a lawyer. She practised international trade law with the NAFTA Secretariat, administrative and regulatory law with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and public law as a federal government civil litigator at the Federal Court of Canada.^[2]^{[better source needed]}

Collard is a mother of four children and has reported education as a personal interest. In 2003, she launched a pilot francophone school with 18 students – Trille des Bois – which was officially opened in 2010. Today, 600 students attend Trille des Bois.^[3]

Political career

Trustee

Collard first ran for public office in 2010 and was elected as a School Trustee for the Ottawa-Vanier, Ottawa-Rockcliffe region. She was re-elected in 2014 and 2018. Following her second re-election, she was elected as chair of the board of the Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario.^[4]

Provincial politics

In early 2020, Collard won the Liberal nomination for the by-election to the provincial electoral district of Ottawa-Vanier, which was vacated by Nathalie Des Rosiers. She was elected on February 7, 2020, with 52.2% of the vote.^[5]

In the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, she serves as the Liberal opposition critic for the following ministerial portfolios:

Ministry of the Attorney General (the provincial judiciary, criminal justice system and legal defence of the Government of Ontario)
Ministry of the Solicitor General (law enforcement, penitentiary and correctional services)
Office of Women's Issues
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks^[6]

She was re-elected in the 2022 Ontario general election.^[7]

Electoral history

v t e 2022 Ontario general election: Ottawa—Vanier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Lucille Collard	16,132	41.71	−10.51	$80,016
	New Democratic	Lyra Evans	10,026	25.93	+0.68	$54,961
	Progressive Conservative	Patrick Mayangi	7,798	20.16	+8.47	$22,402
	Green	Christian Proulx	3,019	7.81	−0.77	$9,017
	Ontario Party	Eric Armstrong-Giroux	587	1.52		$506
	New Blue	Michael Pastien	400	1.03		$1,737
	Libertarian	Coreen Corcoran	335	0.87	+0.22	$786
	None of the Above	Blake Hamilton	210	0.54	+0.06	$565
	Freedom	David McGruer	166	0.43		$0
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,673	99.32	-0.13	$142,255
Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots			263	0.68	+0.13
Turnout			38,936	39.42	+19.53
Eligible voters			101,657
	Liberal hold		Swing		−5.60
Source(s) "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. "Statistical Summary by Electoral District" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21.