# Carole-Marie Allard

Carole-Marie Allard (September 6, 1949 – March 18, 2024) was a Canadian politician who served as a Liberal member of Canada's House of Commons. She represented the riding of Laval East from 2000 to 2004. She was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, and a member of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and the vice-chair of the Special Committee on Non-medical use of drugs. She lost the 2004 election to Robert Carrier of the Bloc Québécois in the riding of Alfred-Pellan.
She was a lawyer, press attaché, designer, organizer and presenter of media management training programs, a spokesperson for a corporation, and she was journalist, writer and producer.
She was the stepmother of Mélanie Joly who is a member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Ahuntsic-Cartierville and also serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Justin Trudeau.

## Partial electoral record

vte2004 Canadian federal election: Alfred-Pellan :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Bloc Québécois | Robert Carrier | 26,239 | 49.20 | +6.65 | $38,963 |
| | Liberal | Carole-Marie Allard | 21,116 | 39.59 | −5.18 | $70,978 |
| | Conservative | Rosane Raymond | 2,703 | 5.07 | −3.21 | $10,199 |
| | New Democratic | Benjamin Le Bel | 1,849 | 3.47 | +2.48 | $2,108 |
| | Green | Louis-Philippe Verenka | 1,132 | 2.12 | +0.98 | $0 |
| | Independent | Yves Denois | 204 | 0.38 | – | none listed |
| | Independent | Régent Millette | 89 | 0.17 | −0.27 | none listed |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 53,232 | 100.00 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 1,128 | 2.07 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 54,460 | 67.95 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 80,148 |
| | Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal | Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal | Swing | Swing | +5.92 |
| Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election. |||||||
vte2000 Canadian federal election: Laval East :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Carole-Marie Allard | 26,018 | 44.77 | +12.66 | $69,391 |
| | Bloc Québécois | Mathieu Alarie | 24,726 | 42.55 | +4.09 | $71,179 |
| | Progressive Conservative | André G. Plourde | 2,459 | 4.23 | −23.93 | none listed |
| | Alliance | Rosane Raymond | 2,354 | 4.05 | – | $877 |
| | Marijuana | Christian Lajoie | 892 | 1.53 | – | $157 |
| | Green | Frédéric Gauvin | 660 | 1.14 | – | $108 |
| | New Democratic | Sujata Dey | 573 | 0.99 | −0.28 | none listed |
| | Independent | Régent Millette | 255 | 0.44 | – | none listed |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Gabriel Cornellier-Brunelle | 178 | 0.31 | – | $10 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 58,115 | 97.4 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 1,535 | 2.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 59,650 | 68.7 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 86,759 |
| | Liberal gain from Bloc Québécois | Liberal gain from Bloc Québécois | Swing | Swing | +4.29 |
| Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada. |||||||

## Books

* Allard, Carole-Marie (1990). Lavalin : les ficelles du pouvoir. Collection Gens du pays. Chicoutimi, Québec: Éditions JCL. pp. 317 p. : ill., 23 cm. ISBN 2920176897.
* Allard, Carole-Marie (c. 1992). L'Affaire Claire Lortie : l'histoire du congélateur. Collection Énigmes. Chicoutimi, Québec: JCL. pp. 279 p. : ill., portr., 22 cm. ISBN 2894311079.