Mélanie Joly

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Before her election to parliament, Joly was the head of the Quebec advisory committee for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal leadership campaign. Prior to entering politics, she was a lawyer at the Montreal business law firms Stikeman Elliot and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, where she specialized in civil and commercial litigation, bankruptcy and insolvency law.
Joly was legal counsel for the Polygone Group before the Gomery Inquiry Commission into the Liberal sponsorship scandal in the mid-2000s. Polygone was one of the companies receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from the party and channelling them to its friends.
Joly’s husband, Félix Marzell, is the owner and president of the companies Dix au carré, an industrial design and engineering firm in Montreal and Le Monde Studio. He owns significant shares in Couche-Tard Inc. and the Bank of Montreal. The couple were introduced by Soraya Martinez, leader of the municipal party Ensemble Montréal.
Joly’s brother, Jean-Sébastien Joly, is the president and CEO of Intelcom/Dragonfly, a parcel delivery company which is a key subcontractor for Amazon. Intelcom is Amazon’s main subcontractor in Quebec and took over the majority of Amazon’s warehousing and delivery operations in the province when the latter closed up shop in the province to crush a burgeoning union movement in its warehouses.
Joly’s father, Clément Joly, who was chair of the federal Liberals’ Finance Committee in Quebec and director of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority from 2002 to 2007. Her stepmother, Carole-Marie Allard was the MP for Laval—East from 2000 to 2004.