Attorney General of Canada

The Honourable David Lametti became first elected in 2015 because of the Member of Parliament for LaSalle-Émard—Verdun. He has served as Minister of Justice and attorney standard of Canada seeing that 2019.

A proud resident of Montréal for over 30 years, Minister Lametti became born and raised in Port Colborne, Ontario. The tale of his mother and father, two Italian immigrants, is considered one of generational sacrifice: they left their home and got here to Canada in order that their children ought to have a better life than they did. Minister Lametti believes that his mother and father’s difficult paintings and commitment to education gave him the opportunity to be triumphant.

Earlier than getting into politics, Minister Lametti become a Professor of law at McGill University for almost two decades and hooked up himself as an accomplished prison academic and expert in assets and intellectual assets law.

Minister Lametti holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political technological know-how from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Civil regulation and Bachelor of legal guidelines from McGill College, a master of legal guidelines from Yale law college, and a health practitioner of Philosophy in regulation from Oxford university. He has taught or lectured in some of the international’s most well-known universities in French, English, and Italian.

Minister Lametti is the daddy of three-person youngsters and lives in Montréal.