Rachel Bendayan has been appointed to the government of Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, three months after being named in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet as the first minister of Moroccan descent in the federal government of Canada.
Ms Bendayan’s task will be to manage the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship portfolio in the new 24-member government. She served as the Minister of Official Languages in the last administration.
Rachel Bendayan is a law graduate from McGill University, she began her career in 2007 as a lawyer in commercial litigation and international arbitration. In 2019, she was elected as the federal Member of Parliament for Outremont, Quebec.She recently was appointed by former prime minister Justin Trudeau as a parliamentary advisor to the Minister of Small Business and Export Development.
