After consulting her husband ... Ms. Joly was not only a newly minted member of Parliament, representing a district in Montreal, but also part of Mr. Trudeau’s first, gender-balanced cabinet.

Mélanie Joly, born in Montreal, Quebec, is a prominent Canadian politician and member of the Liberal Party. First elected to represent the Ahuntsic-Cartierville riding in the House of Commons in ...

Joly, who had studied international law at Oxford, said the job would jeopardize the “yearslong quest” by her and her husband for a baby through in vitro fertilization. But, she told Austen ...