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Sophie Chatel

Sophie Chatel (born December 12, 1972), is a Canadian political candidate for the Liberal Party in the Pontiac, Quebec riding for the 2021 federal election. Contents •	Early Life •	Career in Public Service •	Liberal Candidate for Pontiac Riding •	References •	External Links

Early Life Sophie Chatel was born in Montreal, Quebec. She attended CEGEP at Collège Montmorency in Laval-Ouest, specializing in theatre. In 1991 she enrolled at the Law Faculty of the University of Montreal, graduating with a LLB in civil law in 1994. Sophie passed the Quebec Bar in 1995, received an MA in tax law from the University of Sherbrooke in 1997 and earned her CPA in 2000.

Career in Public Service After working for several accounting and law firms in the greater Montreal region as a financial advisor, Sophie Chatel entered the public service of the Government of Canada on August, 2002. From 2002-2017 Sophie worked at Canada’s Department of Finance and at the Canada Revenue Agency where she worked on international tax policy for the Canadian government. Sophie was also, for many years, a delegate to the committees responsible for tax treaties at the OECD and at the United Nations. From September 2017 to June 2021, Sophie Chatel was the Head of the Tax Treaty Unit at the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration where she worked on the development and negotiation of global solutions to the tax challenges of the digitalization of the economy. In May, 2021, Sophie returned to the Department of Finance as Senior Director, International Tax Legislation and lead the project to draft a legislation for digital service tax that for the Minister of Finance.

Liberal Candidate for Pontiac Riding After incumbent MP William Amos decided against running on August 8, 2021, Sophie was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate for the Pontiac riding. In various public interviews she has expressed the importance of preserving Pontiac’s natural patrimony, creating economic opportunity by better linking rural communities, while meeting the challenge of climate change by investing in a ‘sustainable prosperity.’

References •	Maan Alhmidi, “Three Liberal MPs opt out of running for re-election,” GLOBE AND MAIL, AUGUST 9, 2021. •	Taylor Blewett, “Liberals acclaim candidates in Ottawa Centre, Kanata-Carleton, Pontiac,” Ottawa Citizen, August 10, 2021. •	Stuart Benson, “Amos exits federal politics,” The Lowdown online, August 11, 2021.

External Links •	Sophie Chatel Facebook Page •	Sophie Chatel’s Linkedin Page •	Sophie Chatel’s Twitter Page •	CHIP 101.9, “Interview with Liberal Candidate,” August 18, 2021 •	Sophie Chatel and Jinyan Li, “Repurposing Pillar One into an Incremental Global Tax for Sustainability: A Collective Response to a Global Crisis” Bulletin for International Taxation, 2021 (Volume 75), No. 5, Published online, 15 May 2021. •	Sophie Chatel, “Allocating Taxing Rights to the Market Country” Said Business School, University of Oxford Tax Conference, 2019. •	Sophie Chatel, “OECD Tax Talks,” uploaded to YouTube, 31 January, 2021.