The sunniest Liberal, Mélanie Joly – Macleans.ca

A rookie MP and top Quebec cabinet minister, Mélanie Joly has become the optimistic, smiling face of Trudeau-era Ottawa

Martin Patriquin

June 10, 2016

The YouTube creative space at Toronto’s George Brown College is a minimalist testament to all that is young, smart and digital-savvy. Officially opened in late April, it is all high ceilings and white space, an Ikea showroom robbed of most of its furniture. Stackable wooden cubes, coloured YouTube red, will serve as chairs and props for the thousands of videos that will be shot here in the coming years.

Mélanie Joly exits a cab with her press attaché and two aides and strolls into the YouTube space on a pair of black pumps with red polka dots. “Hi, I’m Mélanie, the minister for Canadian Heritage,” she says to the students milling about the entrance.

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