Dominic LeBlanc

Dominic A. LeBlanc PC KC MP (born December 14, 1967) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has served as the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs since 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, LeBlanc sits as the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauséjour, representing the New Brunswick riding in the House of Commons since 2000. He has held a number of Cabinet portfolios throughout his tenure in government.

The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc PC KC MP
LeBlanc in 2023
Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office July 26, 2023^[1]
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Marco Mendicino (Public Safety) Himself (Intergovernmental Affairs)
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities^[a]
In office August 18, 2020 – July 26, 2023^[2]
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Chrystia Freeland (Intergovernmental Affairs) Catherine McKenna (Infrastructure and Communities)
Succeeded by	Himself (Intergovernmental Affairs) Sean Fraser (Infrastructure and Communities)
President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
In office July 18, 2018 – October 26, 2021
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Karina Gould
Succeeded by	Bill Blair
Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade
In office July 18, 2018 – November 20, 2019
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Justin Trudeau (Intergovernmental Affairs) Carolyn Bennett (Northern Affairs)
Succeeded by	Chrystia Freeland (Intergovernmental Affairs) Dan Vandal (Northern Affairs)
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
In office May 31, 2016 – July 18, 2018
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Hunter Tootoo
Succeeded by	Jonathan Wilkinson
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
In office November 4, 2015 – August 19, 2016
Prime Minister	Justin Trudeau
Preceded by	Peter Van Loan
Succeeded by	Bardish Chagger
Member of Parliament for Beauséjour
Incumbent
Assumed office November 27, 2000
Preceded by	Angela Vautour
Personal details
Born	(1967-12-14) December 14, 1967 (age 55) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Jolène Richard
Parent	Roméo LeBlanc^[3]
Residence(s)	Moncton, New Brunswick
Education	Lisgar Collegiate Institute
Alma mater	Trinity College, Toronto (BA) University of New Brunswick (LLB) Harvard University (LLM)
Profession	Lawyer
Website	Dominic LeBlanc

LeBlanc ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 2008 but dropped out of the race to endorse Michael Ignatieff, who was later acclaimed leader. With the resignation of Ignatieff after the 2011 federal election LeBlanc was considered a likely candidate in the race to succeed him as party leader, but did not run.^[4][5]

LeBlanc served as the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2016.^[6] He served as Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard from 2016 to 2018 and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Northern Affairs and Internal Trade from 2018 to 2019. He has served as President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada from 2018 to 2021 and began a second stint as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in 2020. After the 2021 federal election, LeBlanc remained as minister of intergovernmental affairs but also became minister of infrastructure and communities. In 2023, LeBlanc moved to his current role as Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, gaining responsibility for public safety and democratic institutions while remaining minister of intergovernmental affairs.

Early life and education

LeBlanc was born in 1967, of Acadian descent, in Ottawa, Ontario, to Joslyn "Lyn" (née Carter) and Roméo LeBlanc, a former MP, senator and 25th governor general of Canada.

As a child, he baby-sat the children of then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau. He remained friends with Justin Trudeau and endorsed Trudeau's candidacy for Liberal leader in 2012.

LeBlanc attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute for high school.^[7] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Toronto (Trinity College), a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of New Brunswick, and then attended Harvard Law School, where he obtained his Master of Laws degree. LeBlanc worked as a barrister and solicitor with Clark Drummie in Shediac and Moncton. From 1993 to 1996, LeBlanc was a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

Political career

LeBlanc is member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Beauséjour in New Brunswick.

LeBlanc first ran in that riding in 1997,^[8] losing to New Democratic Party candidate, Angela Vautour.^[9] During that race there were accusations of political patronage as LeBlanc's father was the sitting viceroy, and there was criticism that the governor general had a series of events planned in New Brunswick the very week that the election writs dropped.^{[10][11][12][13]}

In 2000 LeBlanc once again ran against Vautour, who had crossed the floor and was a Progressive Conservative, and was elected.^[14] LeBlanc has been re-elected in the 2004 (where he faced Vautour for the third time), 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2021.

Chrétien and Martin governments

During the Liberal Party's time in power LeBlanc served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, from January 13, 2003, to December 11, 2003, and was the chair of the Atlantic Caucus.

On July 10, 2004, he was sworn in as a Member of the Privy Council for Canada and appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the leader of the Government in the House of Commons and deputy chief government whip. He has served on the Special Committee on Non-Medical Use of Drugs, and the Standing Committees on Fisheries and Oceans, Transport and Government Operations, National Defence and Veterans Affairs, and Public Accounts, Procedures and House Affairs, and International Trade.

In opposition

In January 2006, he was named Official Opposition critic for international trade and later that year he was co-chair of the 2006 Liberal Party leadership convention in Montreal. In January 2007, he was named by the Honourable Stéphane Dion, Vice Chair – Liberal Party of Canada Policy and Platform Committee and In October of that year, he was named Official Opposition critic for intergovernmental affairs. In January 2009, he was named by Michael Ignatieff as the critic for justice and attorney general. Before the return of Parliament in September 2010, Ignatieff shuffled his Shadow Cabinet and appointed LeBlanc as the Liberal critic for national defence.^[15] Following LeBlanc's re-election in the 2011 federal election, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae appointed LeBlanc as the Liberal Party's foreign affairs critic.

2008 leadership bid

On October 27, 2008, LeBlanc was the first candidate to officially announce his intention to seek the leadership of the Liberal party to replace Stéphane Dion. Former leadership candidates Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae came forward shortly after LeBlanc's announcement.^[16] His supporters included top staffers in the prime minister's office under Jean Chrétien, such as his former chief of staff Percy Downe, and Tim Murphy, chief of staff under Paul Martin. Some senior organizers in Gerard Kennedy's 2006 leadership bid were also with LeBlanc.^[17]

 

LeBlanc with former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff (centre-left) during the 2011 federal election campaign launch, in Ottawa.

On December 8, 2008, LeBlanc announced he was dropping out of the leadership race because he felt a leader needed to be put in place as soon as possible and that he was throwing his support behind Ignatieff. The next day Rae dropped out of the race and Ignatieff was acclaimed leader when Dion stepped down.^[18][19]

2011–2015

LeBlanc retained his seat in the 2011 election, while the Liberals dropped down to third place in the House of Commons.

Regarding the race for the leadership of the Liberal Party, LeBlanc, a prospective leadership candidate, puts it, the next leader needs to commit 10 to 15 years of his or her life "occupied exclusively" with rebuilding the Liberal party and winning elections.^[20]

Trudeau government

42nd Canadian Parliament

On November 4, 2015, he was appointed the leader of the Government in the House of Commons in the present Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau.^[21] On May 31, 2016, upon the resignation of Hunter Tootoo from the Ministry, LeBlanc also became the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. His father had previously held the equivalent position under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.^[22]

On August 19, 2016, Leblanc was replaced as leader of the Government in the House of Commons by Bardish Chagger. He retained the post of Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.^[6]

On July 18, 2018, Leblanc was shuffled from Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard to Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Northern Affairs and Internal Trade, a combination of two positions, Intergovernmental Affairs and Youth, and Northern Affairs.^[23]

On September 12, 2018, the ethics commissioner, Mario Dion found LeBlanc broke conflict of interest rules when he awarded a lucrative Arctic surf clam licence to a company linked to his wife's cousin in February 2018.^[24]

On April 26, 2019, Leblanc announced he would be stepping back from cabinet as he sought treatment for cancer.^[25]

43rd Canadian Parliament

On November 20, 2019, Leblanc returned to Cabinet as President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, a position with reduced responsibilities. His former role as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Northern Affairs and Internal Trade, was split between the Minister of Northern Affairs, and the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs.^[26]

After the resignation of Bill Morneau as Minister of Finance, Leblanc again became Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs after his successor, Chrystia Freeland, took the role of Minister of Finance in a cabinet shuffle on August 18, 2020. He retained his position as President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.^[27]

44th Canadian Parliament

As of 31 August 2022, Leblanc sat on seven of the 13 cabinet committees then extant:^[28]

• Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications
• Sub-Committee on Intergovernmental Coordination
• Cabinet Committee on Operations
• Sub-Committee on Litigation Management
• Cabinet Committee on Economy, Inclusion and Climate “B”
• Sub-Committee on the federal response to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
• Task Force on Services to Canadians

Cabinet positions

29th Ministry – Cabinet of Justin Trudeau
Cabinet posts (7)
Predecessor	Office	Successor
Marco Mendicino Himself	Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs 2023–	Incumbent
Himself Catherine McKenna	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities 2021–2023	Himself Sean Fraser
Chrystia Freeland	Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs 2020–2021	Himself
Karina Gould	President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada 2019–2021	Bill Blair
Justin Trudeau Carolyn Bennett	Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade 2018–2019	Chrystia Freeland Dan Vandal
Hunter Tootoo	Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard 2016–2018	Jonathan Wilkinson
Peter Van Loan	Leader of the Government in the House of Commons 2015–2016	Bardish Chagger

Electoral record

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Beauséjour
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	27,313	55.6	+9.1
	Conservative	Shelly Mitchell	9,526	19.4	+1.8
	New Democratic	Evelyne Godfrey	5,394	11.0	+3.7
	Green	Stella Anna Girouard	2,798	5.7	-21.0
	People's	Jack Minor	3,723	7.6	+5.6
	Free	Isabelle Sauriol Chiasson	391	0.8	N/A
Total valid votes			49,145	99.4
Total rejected ballots			294	0.6
Turnout			49,439	68.0	-10.0
Registered voters			72,726
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.5
Source: Elections Canada^[29]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Beauséjour
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	24,948	46.47	−22.54	$83,393.36
	Green	Laura Reinsborough	14,305	26.65	+22.16	$74,321.26
	Conservative	Vincent Cormier	9,438	17.58	+6.21	$39,043.98
	New Democratic	Jean-Marc Bélanger	3,940	7.34	−7.79	none listed
	People's	Nancy Mercier	1,054	1.96	New	$6,338.64
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,685	100.0		$101,392.80
Total rejected ballots			475	0.88	+0.28
Turnout			54,160	77.99	−2.49
Eligible voters			69,444
	Liberal hold		Swing		−22.35
Source: Elections Canada^[30]^[31]

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	36,534	69.02	+28.33	$77,614.48
	New Democratic	Hélène Boudreau	8,009	15.13	–8.30	$24,161.02
	Conservative	Ann Bastarache	6,017	11.37	–20.35	–
	Green	Kevin King	2,376	4.49	+0.32	$1,009.07
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,936	100.00		$200,494.19
Total rejected ballots			320	0.60
Turnout			53,256	80.48
Eligible voters			66,170
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+18.31
Source: Elections Canada^[32]^[33]

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	17,399	39.08	-7.68
	Conservative	Evelyn Chapman	14,814	33.27	+4.12
	New Democratic	Susan Levi-Peters	10,397	23.35	+6.47
	Green	Natalie Arsenault	1,913	4.3	-2.89
Total valid votes/Expense limit			–	100.00
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.90

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	19,972	46.6	-0.95
	Conservative	Omer Léger	12,512	29.2	-3.03
	New Democratic	Chris Durrant	7,219	16.8	+0.13
	Green	Mike Milligan	3,187	7.4	+4.61
Total valid votes			42,890
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.08

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	22,012	47.55	-5.73
	Conservative	Omer Léger	14,919	32.23	+4.04
	New Democratic	Neil Gardner	7,717	16.67	+1.96
	Green	Anna Girouard	1,290	2.79	-1.03
	Independent	Frank Comeau	357	0.77	Ø
Total valid votes			46,295
	Liberal hold		Swing		+4.89

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	21,934	53.28	+6.18
	Conservative	Angela Vautour	11,604	28.19	-17.65
	New Democratic	Omer Bourque	6,056	14.71	+7.65
	Green	Anna Girouard	1,574	3.82	Ø
Total valid votes			41,168
	Liberal hold		Swing		+11.92

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	21,465	47.10	+12.27
	Progressive Conservative	Angela Vautour	14,631	32.11	+16.11
	Alliance	Tom Taylor	6256	13.73	+3.55
	New Democratic	Inka Milewski	3217	7.06	-31.93
Total valid votes			45,569
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+22.10

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Angela Vautour	18,504	38.99	+33.25
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	16,529	34.83	-41.20
	Progressive Conservative	Ian Hamilton	7592	16.00	+0.78
	Reform	Raymond Braun	4833	10.18	Ø
Total valid votes			47,458
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+37.23

Notes

1. From 2020 to 2021, the role was known as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs; on October 26, 2021, the role was renamed Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, with LeBlanc gaining responsibility for Infrastructure and Communities from Catherine McKenna.

Personal life

In 2003, he married Jolène Richard, a former Moncton lawyer who became a judge on the Provincial Court of New Brunswick in 2008, and eventually became a chief judge.^[34] She is the daughter of Guy A. Richard, who served as Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick.^[35][36] He has an adult stepson.^[36]

In December 2017, he announced that he had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and would begin chemotherapy immediately while continuing to serve in his parliamentary roles.^[36]

In 2019 he got a treatment with stem cells (chance of 1 to 1 million match) from an 18-year-old German donor and has been cured since.^[37] After the regular two-years non-contact time between donor and patient, both have been in personal contact since then and the donor paid a visit to LeBlanc in Canada in September 2022.^[38]

Arms

Coat of arms of Dominic LeBlanc

Notes inherited his arms from his father Adopted January 1, 1995 (granted to his father), June 24, 2009 (inherited) Crest Four eagle feathers within a circlet of Micmac quill decration Gules Torse Argent and Gules Escutcheon Argent on a pile Gules the Star of Acadia ensigned by a representation of the Royal Crown Or; Supporters Two dolphins Argent each gorged with a collar of maple leaves Gules and fleurs de lys Or, pendand therefrom a plate Azure, dexter surmounted by a steam locomotive wheel Or, sinister surmounted by a book Or Compartment Issuant from a mound set with maple leaves all Gules flanked by waves proper Motto SEMPER AMISSOS MEMINISSE DECET (It is right to remember the forgotten) Symbolism The use of white recalls the LeBlanc family name, while the pile refers to the Memramcook Valley, where Roméo LeBlanc was born, and the dolphins evoke the Rivière Dauphin (now Annapolis River), where LeBlanc's ancestors settled in the mid 17th century, as well as Roméo LeBlanc's maritime heritage and his service as the minister of fisheries. The star is a symbol long used by the Acadians, as are the fleurs de lys representative of LeBlanc's roots in that community, and the royal crown represents Roméo LeBlanc's appointment as the representative of the Canadian sovereign. The eagle feathers, a symbols of peace, honour the Canadian First Nations, and the number represents Roméo LeBlanc's four children. More family links are depicted in the steam locomotive wheel – representing LeBlanc's father's service on the Canadian railways – and the book evoking Roméo LeBlanc's training and work as a teacher. The compartment symbolises a multi-ethnic Canada between two seas, and recalls the Micmac origin of the word Memramcook, meaning multi-coloured landscape.^[39]

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