Joël Lightbound
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Joël Lightbound (born February 8, 1988) is a Canadian politician who has served as the minister of government transformation, public services and procurement since May 2025 and the government's Quebec lieutenant since December 2025. A member of the Liberal Party, he was first elected following the 2015 federal election and is the member of Parliament (MP) for Louis-Hébert.
Background
In 2008, Lightbound was awarded the Cardinal Roy Trophy from Champlain Regional College. He later attended the McGill University Faculty of Law, where he won the National Laskin Moot. He initially articled with the Montreal offices of Fasken, and prior to his election practiced law in the Quebec City area, specializing in immigration.
Political career
Lightbound was elected in 2015. He was re-elected in 2019, becoming the first MP in three decades to hold Louis-Hébert for more than one term, and again in 2021.
In February 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic and Freedom Convoy protests, Lightbound held a press conference where he spoke out against politicians' handling of the pandemic, and denounced dismissing those with "legitimate concerns" while also calling for the convoy protesters to return home. Soon afterwards, Lightbound resigned his position in the party as Quebec caucus chair.
In 2022, Lightbound was the sole Liberal MP to vote for a Bloc Québécois-sponsored resolution calling for the Monarchy of Canada to be abolished.
On April 28, 2025, Lightbound was re-elected again from Louis-Hébert, with 55.4% of the vote. On May 13, 2025, he was appointed to Prime Minister Mark Carney's Cabinet as Minister of Government Transformation, Public Services and Procurement. In this capacity, Lightbound announced in September 2025 that the federal government would allow Canada Post to phase out door-to-door service in favour of community mailboxes, impacting roughly 4,000,000 addresses. It will also close many rural post offices. He was appointed Quebec lieutenant in December 2025.
Electoral record
| vte2025 Canadian federal election: Louis-Hébert | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Joël Lightbound | 33,512 | 55.44 | +17.23 | ||
| Bloc Québécois | Valérie Savard | 12,897 | 21.34 | -5.66 | ||
| Conservative | Claude Dussault | 12,164 | 20.12 | -4.19 | ||
| New Democratic | Jean-Paul Lussiaà-Berdou | 1,540 | 2.55 | -4.68 | ||
| People's | Vatthana Maholy | 332 | 0.55 | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 60,445 | 98.81 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 729 | 1.19 | ||||
| Turnout | 61,174 | 76.95 | ||||
| Eligible voters | 79,502 | |||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +11.45 | ||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. |
| vte2021 Canadian federal election: Louis-Hébert | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Joël Lightbound | 22,933 | 38.35 | -2.16 | $51,233.94 | |
| Bloc Québécois | Marc Dean | 16,247 | 27.17 | -0.83 | $22,437.53 | |
| Conservative | Gilles Lépine | 14,332 | 23.97 | +6.39 | $21,615.85 | |
| New Democratic | Hamid Nadji | 4,337 | 7.25 | -0.62 | $5,611.33 | |
| Green | Denis Blanchette | 1,573 | 2.63 | -1.34 | $2,847.44 | |
| Independent | Ali Dahan | 378 | 0.63 | +0.20 | $0.00 | |
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 59,800 | – | – | $111,646.95 | ||
| Total rejected ballots | 861 | |||||
| Turnout | 60,661 | 74.31 | -2.07 | |||
| Registered voters | 81,632 | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -0.67 | ||||
| Source: Elections Canada |
| vte2019 Canadian federal election: Louis-Hébert | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Joël Lightbound | 25,140 | 40.51 | +5.66 | $82,402.61 | |
| Bloc Québécois | Christian Hébert | 17,375 | 28.00 | +13.59 | $49,988.85 | |
| Conservative | Marie-Josée Guérette | 10,912 | 17.58 | -9.61 | $54,059.24 | |
| New Democratic | Jérémie Juneau | 4,884 | 7.87 | -12.94 | none listed | |
| Green | Macarena Diab | 2,466 | 3.97 | +1.44 | none listed | |
| People's | Daniel Brisson | 1,016 | 1.64 | – | none listed | |
| Independent | Ali Dahan | 267 | 0.43 | – | $0.00 | |
| Total valid votes | 62,060 | 98.61 | – | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 873 | 1.39 | – | |||
| Turnout | 62,933 | 76.38 | – | |||
| Eligible voters | 82,395 | – | – | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -3.97 | ||||
| Source: Elections Canada |
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Louis-Hébert | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Liberal | Joël Lightbound | 21,516 | 34.85 | +21.43 | – | |
| Conservative | Jean-Pierre Asselin | 16,789 | 27.19 | +5.36 | – | |
| New Democratic | Denis Blanchette | 12,850 | 20.81 | -17.84 | – | |
| Bloc Québécois | Caroline Pageau | 8,900 | 14.41 | -9.80 | – | |
| Green | Andrée-Anne Beaudoin-Julien | 1,561 | 2.53 | +0.88 | – | |
| Christian Heritage | Stefan Jetchick | 128 | 0.21 | -0.03 | – | |
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 61,744 | 100.00 | $217,520.39 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 627 | 1.01 | – | |||
| Turnout | 62,371 | 76.90 | – | |||
| Eligible voters | 81,109 | |||||
| Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | +19.63 | ||||
| Source: Elections Canada |
External links
- Media related to Joël Lightbound at Wikimedia Commons