| Pascale St-Onge (born May 13, 1977) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Brome—Missisquoi in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election. She has been Minister of Canadian Heritage since July 2023 and Minister of Tourism and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec since February 2025. She also held the latter position from 2021 to 2023, when she was also Minister of Sport from 2021 to 2023. Her appointment to cabinet in 2021 made her the first openly lesbian Canadian cabinet minister. In February 2025, St. Onge announced that she would not run in that year's federal election.
Before politics, she was president of the Fédération nationale des communications et de la culture, Quebec's largest media union as well as a bassist in an all-lesbian alternative rock band, Mad June. |
