Valérie Assouline is a Canadian lawyer and politician who is a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Saint-Laurent.
Legal career Assouline was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1998.
Assouline represented the mother and grandmother of a 7-year-old girl from Granby, Quebec who was murdered by her stepmother in 2019 in a lawsuit against Quebec's department of youth protection, claiming that they failed to protect her from her stepmother's abuse.
Assouline was the 160th President of the Bar of Montreal (Bâtonnière of Montreal) from May 2025 to May 2026.
Political career In the 2014 Quebec general election, Assouline ran in the riding of Laurier-Dorion as a member of Coalition Avenir Quebec, coming in 4th-place with 7.2% of the votes.
In the 2015 Canadian federal election, she ran in the riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. She came in second with 20% of the votes, losing to Frank Baylis.
In 2017, Assouline was elected city councillor in Dollard-des-Ormeaux's 6th District, defeating incumbent Peter Prassas, and was re-elected in 2021 and 2025, the latter being by acclimation.
On August 26, 2026, she was selected by the Quebec Liberal Party to be their candidate for Saint-Laurent in the 2026 Quebec general election.
Personal life Assouline was born in Morocco into a Jewish household and moved to Quebec when she was four. She has four children. She is a Zionist and has expressed views against muslims and Palestine.
Electoral record
2025 Dollard-des-Ormeaux municipal election: District 6 Candidate Votes %Valérie Assouline (X) Acclaimed 2021 Dollard-des-Ormeaux municipal election: District 6 Candidate Votes %Valérie Assouline (X) 579 42.95Dereik Gregory 543 40.28Deepak Awasti 226 16.77 2017 Dollard-des-Ormeaux municipal election: District 6 Candidate Votes % Valérie Assouline 869 53.18 Peter Prassas (X) 765 46.82
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