Caroline Anne Mulroney Lapham (born June 11, 1974) is a Canadian businesswoman, lawyer and politician who currently serves as the
Ontario Minister of Transportation
The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is the provincial ministry of the Government of Ontario that is responsible for transport infrastructure and related law in Ontario. The ministry traces its roots back over a century to the 1890s, when the pro ...
and
Minister of Francophone Affairs.
Born in
Montreal, Quebec
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, she is the daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney ( ; born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studied political sci ...
. A graduate of
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
and
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
, she was the elected
MPP
MPP or M.P.P. may refer to:
* Marginal physical product
* Master of Public Policy, an academic degree
* Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), Canada
* Member of Provincial Parliament (Western Cape), South Africa
* ''Merriweather Post Pavilion ...
for the riding of
York—Simcoe
York—Simcoe is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979, from 1988 to 1997 and since 2004.
It covers part of the region north of Toronto by Lake Simcoe.
...
in the
2018 election as a member of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
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and was a candidate in the
2018 Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership election, placing third. She served as
Attorney General of Ontario
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from 2018 to 2019.
Mulroney grew up in
Ottawa
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, before being educated at
Harvard University
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and the
New York University School of Law
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. She lived and worked in the United States for 12 years until 2005 when she returned to Canada, worked in financial services and became involved in charitable work. She also served on the board of directors of the
Windsor–Detroit Bridge Authority
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.
Early life and education
Mulroney is the eldest of four children and only daughter of former
Prime Minister of Canada
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Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney ( ; born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studied political sci ...
and his wife,
Mila. One of her younger brothers is former
CTV Your Morning host
Ben Mulroney
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right.
Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he ...
. Her father won the
1983 PC leadership race on her ninth birthday. Her maternal grandfather, Dimitrije Pivnički, was a Montreal psychiatrist whose patients included Margaret Trudeau. From ages 10 to 19, she lived in
24 Sussex Drive
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, the home of the prime minister, and attended
Lycée Claudel d'Ottawa
The Lycée Claudel d'Ottawa is a French-language private school in Ottawa built in the early 1960s. It was renovated by Edward J. Cuhaci to provide an infill between two existing school buildings comprising classrooms and a 600-seat auditorium.< ...
.
Her father said in his biography that he believed that she was the most like him "in her mindset". He also mentioned in an interview with
''La Presse'' that she would have been the most likely to follow his footsteps and that he "would not want to be a candidate against her".
Mulroney has an undergraduate degree in Government from Harvard and a
J.D. degree from
New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1835, it is the oldest law school in New York City and the oldest surviving law school in New ...
.
During her time in law school, she developed an interest in public-interest law and interned at the
New York Attorney General
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's office.
Mulroney is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Serbian.
Career
After university, Mulroney worked as a financial analyst at
Bear Stearns
The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was a New York-based global investment bank, securities trading and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 as part of the global financial crisis and recession, and was subsequently sold to JPMorgan Chase. The compa ...
.
She briefly worked as a lawyer and associate at
Shearman & Sterling
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then as an associate director of the
NYU Center for Law & Business.
On July 29, 2002, Mulroney was admitted into the
New York Bar. Mulroney was reinstated as an American lawyer on September 29, 2017 after her law licence had lapsed. She is not qualified as a lawyer in Ontario or any other Canadian jurisdiction.
In 2011, she and her three sisters-in-law,
Jessica Mulroney
Jessica Mulroney (née Brownstein; born March 14, 1980) is a Canadian fashion stylist and marketing consultant, noted for her previous work with Kleinfeld Bridal ( Hudson's Bay), past guest appearances on television shows ''Good Morning America' ...
, Vanessa Mulroney and Katy Mulroney, co-founded
The Shoebox Project The Shoebox Project for Shelters (French: Opération boîte à chaussures) is a Canadian registered charity based in Toronto, Ontario. It is nationally supported by Dream. It collects and distributes shoeboxes filled by volunteer donors with essenti ...
, a non-profit that provides toiletries to women living in shelters. In 2015, she was a blogger for the website, GoGoNews, an online newspaper for children. In addition, she has been a member of the board for the
SickKids Foundation, a governor of the
National Theatre School of Canada
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, and a member of the board of directors of the
Fraser Institute
The Fraser Institute is a libertarian-conservative Canadian public policy think tank and registered charity. The institute describes itself as independent and non-partisan. It is headquartered in Vancouver, with additional offices in Calgary, Tor ...
.
In 2015, Mulroney became vice president at BloombergSen, a Toronto investment counselling firm, until 2 August 2017, when she took a leave of absence upon announcing her candidacy.
On July 30, 2014,
Minister of Transport
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Lisa Raitt
Lisa Sarah MacCormack Raitt (born May 7, 1968) is a former Canadian politician who served as a Cabinet of Canada, federal Cabinet minister and Member of Parliament (Canada), member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2019. A member of the Conservativ ...
appointed Mulroney to the
Windsor–Detroit Bridge Authority
The Windsor–Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA; french: Autorité du pont Windsor-Détroit) is the Canadian federal Crown corporation responsible for administering the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor, Ontario an ...
, a body to oversee a second bridge across the
Detroit River
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that separates
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the souther ...
, from
Detroit, Michigan
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. The authority will oversee the new bridge's $4 billion construction, and the management of the bridge, once it has been completed, including setting the bridge tolls.
Public life
When she was 14, Mulroney campaigned for
Lucien Bouchard
Lucien Bouchard (; born December 22, 1938) is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat and retired politician.
Minister for two years in the Mulroney cabinet, Bouchard then led the emerging Bloc Québécois and became Leader of the Opposition in the House ...
during the 1988
Lac St. Jean
Lac Saint-Jean (Canadian French: ) is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River. It covers an are ...
by-election. After his victory, Bouchard sent her a handwritten thank-you note for her efforts in getting him elected to the PC government. She felt betrayed after Bouchard defected from her father's party to the
Bloc Québécois
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. In 1990, she helped canvass for
Ontario PC
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candidate Alex Burney in the
1990 Ontario election.
On September 20, 2017, she attended the ground-breaking of the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at
St. Francis Xavier University
St. Francis Xavier University is a public undergraduate liberal arts university located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a member of the Maple League, a group of primarily undergraduate universities in Eastern Canada.
History
St. Franc ...
with her father and mother.
Speculation about political career
On December 12, 2015, the ''
Toronto Sun
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'' published a profile of Mulroney, in which journalist Christina Blizzard speculated as to whether her father's party would choose her as their
new leader
''The New Leader'' (1924–2010) was an American political and cultural magazine.
History
''The New Leader'' began in 1924 under a group of figures associated with the Socialist Party of America, such as Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. It was ...
, to go head to head with
Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau ( , ; born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada. He has served as the prime minister of Canada since 2015 and as the leader of the Liberal Party since 2 ...
, the current Prime Minister, the son of her father's old rival,
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau ( , ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada
The prime mini ...
.
Blizzard quoted an unnamed "Tory insider", on Mulroney's performance, when she was the surprise keynote speaker at a 2009 event celebrating the 25th anniversary of her father's administration. That unnamed source said: "She certainly has the smarts and the glamour to offset the current prime minister in any future election."
Blizzard described her lack of political experience as a benefit, since she "won't wear any of the mistakes of the
Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Harper is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, ...
government". Andrew MacDougall, former director of communications to Stephen Harper, noted "But there's a reason Tories—both provincially and federally—have dreamt for a Mulroney candidacy for years" because "she's the closest thing the Tories have to royalty".
When Mulroney served as joint master of ceremonies for the federal
Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right.
Political parties called The Conservative P ...
leadership convention in May 2017, she joked about Trudeau, "Who would want to run for their dad's old job?", but also said in a news interview, "I think politics is definitely something that I've always thought about as a career."
Mulroney responded to Blizzard with an email informing her that politics is not currently her priority telling her in an email: "While I am committed to public service and I am flattered by the suggestion, I am focused on my four young children and my work".
Entry into politics
Patrick Brown recruited Mulroney as a
star candidate
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A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for som ...
for the PCs after meeting her when he helped collect donations for her charity. On August 2, 2017, Mulroney announced that she would seek the
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (french: Parti progressiste-conservateur de l'Ontario), often shortened to the Ontario PC Party or simply the PCs, colloquially known as the Tories, is a centre-right political party in Ontario, Canada ...
nomination in the
York—Simcoe
York—Simcoe is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979, from 1988 to 1997 and since 2004.
It covers part of the region north of Toronto by Lake Simcoe.
...
constituency for the
2018 provincial election by releasing a video in which she stated that the government needs to "get out of the way", manage taxes properly and focus on affordability.
She explained that she chose Mulroney as her political name because Mulroney Lapham was too long and she didn't run as Caroline Lapham because, "no matter what I do, people just always call me Caroline Mulroney."
On September 10, 2017, Mulroney was acclaimed the PC candidate in York—Simcoe.
Her father had previously revealed that she had consulted him over a career in politics and that she had decided to enter provincial instead of federal politics to be closer to her family.
2018 Ontario PC Party leadership bid
Following the sudden resignation of Ontario PC leader
Patrick Brown on January 25, 2018, due to allegations of sexual misconduct, Mulroney's name was raised as a
possible successor.
On February 4, 2018, she declared her candidacy for the
leadership
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of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
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by releasing a video online. Mulroney has the most support from the federal
Conservative
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caucus with 10 members. She was supported by at least four former
Patrick Brown advisers: PC campaign chair Walied Soliman, ex-campaign manager Andrew Boddington, ad guru Dan Robertson, and strategist Hamish Marshall, the former director of controversial website
The Rebel Media
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and the
Conservative
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Campaign Chair for the
43rd Federal Election. Her campaign vice-chair was Derek Vanstone,
Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Harper is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, ...
's former deputy chief of staff and a former
Air Canada
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executive.
On February 4, 2018, Mulroney expressed concern to the
Toronto Star
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that sending her children to private school might be used as political fodder,
and after the leaders' debate on February 28, 2018, she walked away from the post debate scrum when being asked about why she sends her children to private schools by the ''
Ottawa Citizen
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History
Established as ''The Bytown Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the '' ...
'' David Reevely.
Mulroney was criticised by some, including
Doug Ford
Douglas Robert Ford Jr. (born November 20, 1964) is a Canadian politician and businessman who has served as the 26th and current premier of Ontario since June 2018 and leader of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party since March 2018. He ...
, for living most of her adult life in the United States, but she dismissed that by saying: "I've lived the majority of my life in Canada and Ontario".
Also running for the leadership were Ford,
Christine Elliott
Christine Janice Elliott (born April 13, 1955) is a retired Canadian politician in Ontario who served as the 11th deputy premier of Ontario and the Ontario minister of health from 2018 to 2022.
Elliott was elected to represent the riding of New ...
, Tanya Granic Allen and, for a time, Patrick Brown who registered as a candidate on February 18, 2018, before withdrawing a week later. Notwithstanding her previous statements of having "great confidence" in Brown, Mulroney tweeted disapproval of his decision to run. Mulroney urged Brown to resign from the leadership race and asked the other candidates to join her call. However, Ford and Elliott did not do so with Elliott specifically saying that the party had decided who could run for leader. Mulroney criticised Ford and Elliott for their stance.
Two workers in Mulroney's camp privately admitted to CBC News in separate conversations that she was not in the lead while two former MPs who had endorsed Mulroney,
Paul Calandra
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and
Parm Gill
Parm Gill (born May 17, 1974) is a Canadian politician. He has represented the riding of
Milton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2018 and has served as the Ontario Minister for Citizenship and Multiculturalism since June 18, 2021. ...
, moved their support to Elliott.
In the leadership election held March 10, 2018, Mulroney came in third, behind winner
Doug Ford
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and runner-up
Christine Elliott
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Elliott was elected to represent the riding of New ...
, and was eliminated after the second ballot.
42nd Parliament of Ontario
In the 2018 Ontario Election, Mulroney was elected to serve as the MPP for
York—Simcoe
York—Simcoe is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979, from 1988 to 1997 and since 2004.
It covers part of the region north of Toronto by Lake Simcoe.
...
during the
42nd Parliament of Ontario
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. On June 29, 2018, Premier
Doug Ford
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appointed Mulroney to be the
Attorney General of Ontario
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, despite never having practised law in Canada, and
Minister of Francophone Affairs in his
Executive Council.
Mulroney voted in support of the Ford government's September 2018 proposal to use
Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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, commonly called the "notwithstanding clause", to overrule a judge's decision that legislation intended to shrink the size of
Toronto City Council
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Structure
The cur ...
was in fact in violation of Charter rights. For this position, she faced widespread condemnation from constitutional experts and politicians of all parties, particularly with respect to her duty to ensure the sanctity of the judicial process as Attorney General.
In April 2019, as Attorney General of Ontario, Mulroney led a sweeping implementation of the budget austerity measures of the Ford administration on the justice file. This included a $133 million cut to Legal Aid Ontario, cutting over 30 percent of their anticipated $456-million provincial allocation for basic access to justice services for Ontario's low-income citizens. The cuts were targeted at the community legal clinics serving the most vulnerable communities according to advocates. One group called the cuts a "directed attack" against Toronto and groups linked with challenges to the Ford political agenda.
Cabinet positions
Political positions
After winning her riding nomination, Mulroney criticized the Liberal government for its minimum wage hike. During the leadership, Mulroney stated that she was in favour of using the "People's Guarantee" as a "starting point" for the PCPO's 2018 election campaign.
She is opposed to the introduction of a
carbon tax
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. She supports cuts in hydro rates and child care rebates,
and remained committed to spending $1 billion to build
Hamilton's light rail transit system. until Dec 23, 2019 when she publicly announced that the province was withdrawing the promised funding.
Personal life
Mulroney is an American and Canadian dual citizen and is married to Andrew Lapham, former executive advisor at
Blackstone Canada,
former principal at
Onex Corporation
Onex Corporation is an investment manager founded in 1984. The firm manages capital on behalf of Onex shareholders, institutional investors and high net worth clients around the world. As of September 30, 2022, Onex had approximately US$47.2 ...
,
and the son of former ''
Harper's Magazine
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'' editor
Lewis H. Lapham
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and grandson of
Lewis A. Lapham
Lewis Abbot Lapham (March 7, 1909 – December 20, 1995) was an American shipping and banking executive.
Life and career
Lapham was born in New York City, the son of Helen (Abbott) and shipping executive and future Mayor of San Francisco Roge ...
. Mulroney and Lapham met at a blind date at a pub which was set up by one of her Harvard friends.
They were married on September 16, 2000, at
Church of Saint-Léon-de-Westmount
The Church of Saint-Léon-de-Westmount (french: Église Saint-Léon de Westmount) is a Roman Catholic church located in Westmount, Quebec at 4311 De Maisonneuve Boulevard, De Maisonneuve Boulevard West. Built in 1901, the church was designed by we ...
in
Westmount, Quebec. It was covered by ''
The New York Times
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'' as well as Canadian media. Attendees included such notables as
George H. W. Bush
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,
Conrad Black
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His father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadi ...
,
Queen Noor of Jordan
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, and
Joe Clark
Charles Joseph Clark (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian statesman, businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980.
Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal polit ...
. A young, relatively unknown singer named
Michael Bublé
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performed at the wedding, where he was introduced to producer
David Foster
David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His music career spans mor ...
, who would eventually agree to produce
Bublé's debut album. All attendees, including catering staff, had to sign
confidentiality agreements
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.
Mulroney and her husband lived in the United States until 2005. She had the first of their four children on October 30, 2004,
while still living in New York.
In 2005, she and her family moved back to
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
She has two daughters and two sons:
Election results
References
External links
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1974 births
Living people
Attorneys General of Ontario
Brian Mulroney
Businesspeople from Montreal
Children of prime ministers of Canada
Canadian people of Irish descent
Canadian people of Serbian descent
Female justice ministers
Harvard University alumni
Members of the Executive Council of Ontario
New York University School of Law alumni
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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
Women government ministers of Canada
Women MPPs in Ontario
Mulroney family