User:Marciewallace27/Emmanuella Lambropoulos

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Early Life
Lambropoulos was born September 12, 1990 in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montréal. She graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Education in 2013, where she was the president of the Hellenic Student Association. She then became a teacher at Rosemount High School, where she taught French and history.

Political Career
The seat in Saint-Laurent became available after the incumbent MP, Stéphane Dion, announced he would be leaving politics in January 2017, following a cabinet shuffle in which he lost his portfolio as foreign affairs minister. Lambropoulos had previously volunteered on Dion’s team.

Lambropoulos won the Liberal nomination on March 8, 2017 in an upset against the presumed candidate, Yolande James. James had previously been a provincial cabinet minister with strong ties to the Liberal party; however, she came in third place. Another likely candidate, Alan DeSousa, was not included on the ballot at all after being turned down by the Liberal Party. Lambropoulos’s campaign was described as “grassroots” with strong support from local ethnic communities, including the Greek community to which she belongs. Her campaign began in her grandmother’s living room and originally consisted of only Lambropoulos herself and her father.

She was officially elected as an MP in the Saint-Laurent by-election on April 3, 2017 with 59.1% of votes.

Lambropoulos has served on the parliamentary committees for Veterans Affairs (May 2017-Sept 2018), Status of Women (Sept 2017-Sept 2019), and Official Languages (Sept 2018-Sept 2019). Her most frequently-discussed topics in Parliament are disabilities and the status of women. As part of her work for the Status of Women committee, she has studied such issues as shelters and transition homes for women who are seeking to escape domestic violence, and barriers to women entering politics. On the Official Languages committee, she advocates for anglophones as the minority language in Québec.

She was re-elected on October 21, 2019, earning 58.9% of the vote. She stated that she would focus on helping local organizations and middle class families.

Personal Life
Lambropoulos speaks English, French, and Greek.