David Lametti

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David Lametti (2017)

David Lametti PC (born on 10. August 1962 in Port Colborne , Ontario ) is a Canadian legal scholar and politician of the Liberal Party . As of January 14, 2019, he has been the 52nd Attorney General and Attorney General of Canada. Lametti was previously Professor of Law at McGill University in Montreal .

Life

Lametti was born the son of Italian immigrants in the city of Port Colborne in southwestern Ontario. He first studied economics and political science at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts . In 1989 he earned a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University . He then worked as an assistant to Peter Cory , Supreme Court Justice of Canada , and attended Yale Law School , from which he graduated in 1991 with a Master of Laws . 1998 Lametti his doctorate at Exeter College of the University of Oxford with the work Ethical Aspects of the Theory and Practice of Private Property for Ph.D.

From 1994 to 1995 Lametti was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New Brunswick . He has been with McGill University since 1995 . First he was a lecturer from 1995 to 1997 , then an assistant professor until 2003 . In that year he was promoted to associate professor and finally to full professor in 2015 . From 2008 to 2011, he was Deputy Dean of McGill University with responsibility for Academic Affairs. Lametti is a member of the Institute of Comparative Law , which he headed from 2000 to 2004, and is co-founder of the Center for Intellectual Property Police , of which he was director from 2009 to 2012. He is an expert in property law and intellectual property .

David Lametti is Catholic, married and has three children. He speaks French , English and Italian . While at Oxford, he co-captained the university's ice hockey team . Later he was active as a football coach in two Montreal youth leagues.

Political career

As a teenager, Lametti worked as an election worker for the Liberal Party during the 1979 general election . He later co-founded their youth association in southern Ontario. For the general election in 2015 , Lametti stood in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun constituency as a candidate for the Liberal Party and entered the Canadian lower house with 43.9 percent of the vote . Four years later he was able to defend his mandate with 43.5 percent of the vote. Within Parliament he is a member of the Canadian-Italian Parliamentary Group.

After entering the Canadian Parliament for the first time, Lametti was seconded to the Minister for International Trade François-Philippe Champagne as Parliamentary State Secretary . On January 28, 2017, he became Minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains . On January 14, 2019, Justin Trudeau made him 52nd Attorney General and Attorney General of Canada in a cabinet reorganization after incumbent Jody-Wilson Raybould took over the ministerial office for Veterans Affairs.

Web links

Commons : David Lametti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Lametti on the side of the Prime Minister of Canada
  2. ↑ a b c Profile of David Lamettis at McGill University
  3. ↑ a b c d Who is Montrealer David Lametti, Canada's new justice minister? In: Montreal Gazette . Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ Verity Stevenson: Canada's new justice minister is a Montrealer: Meet David Lametti. In: CBC / Radio-Canada . January 14, 2019, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 2015 election results on the website of Elections Canada
  6. ^ Election results 2019 on the website of Elections Canada
  7. ↑ a b Lametti's parliamentary functions on the side of the Canadian House of Commons
  8. ^ Kathleen Harris: Wilson-Raybould moved to Veterans Affairs, Lametti named justice minister in Trudeau cabinet shuffle. In: CBC / Radio-Canada . January 14, 2019, accessed February 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lametti, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian lawyer and politician (Liberal Party), Minister of Justice of Canada
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Colborne