Stéphane Dion
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The Honourable Stéphane Dion PC MP |
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Ambassador of Canada to the European Union Designate |
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Taking office February 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Succeeding | Daniel Costello |
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Ambassador of Canada to Germany Designate |
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Taking office February 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Succeeding | Marie Gervais-Vidricaire |
| 12th Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office November 4, 2015 – January 10, 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Rob Nicholson |
| Succeeded by | Chrystia Freeland |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office December 2, 2006 – December 10, 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Bill Graham |
| Succeeded by | Michael Ignatieff |
| Leader of the Liberal Party | |
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In office December 2, 2006 – December 10, 2008 |
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| Deputy | Michael Ignatieff |
| Preceded by | Bill Graham (Interim) |
| Succeeded by | Michael Ignatieff |
| Minister of the Environment | |
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In office July 20, 2004 – February 6, 2006 |
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| Prime Minister | Paul Martin |
| Preceded by | David Anderson |
| Succeeded by | Rona Ambrose |
| Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs | |
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In office January 25, 1996 – December 11, 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Marcel Massé |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Pettigrew |
| President of the Privy Council | |
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In office January 25, 1996 – December 11, 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Marcel Massé |
| Succeeded by | Denis Coderre |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Saint-Laurent Saint-Laurent—Cartierville (1996–2015) |
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In office March 25, 1996 – February 6, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Shirley Maheu |
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Stéphane Maurice Dion 28 September 1955 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Janine Krieber |
| Children | 1 daughter |
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Laval University (BA, MA) Sciences Po (PhD) |
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Stéphane Maurice DionPC MP (born 28 September 1955) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet headed by Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2017. He has been the Member of Parliament of Canada for the riding of Saint-Laurent—Cartierville in Montreal since 1996, he was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada from 2006 to 2008.
Dion is a former academic who served as a cabinet minister under Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Justin Trudeau.
In his farewell speech to the House of Commons on January 31, 2017, Dion confirmed that he had accepted appointments as Canada's Ambassador to the European Union and Germany.
Dion was born in Quebec City, the second of five children. His mother, Denyse (née Kormann), was a real-estate agent born in Paris, France, and his father, Léon Dion, was a Quebec academic. Dion was raised in a modest home on Liegeois Boulevard in the Sillery, Quebec, today part of Quebec City. While growing up, he remembers being taunted for his family's secularism in a society which was then predominantly Catholic.
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