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Who We Are | Why We Are
Marie Moliner
Regional Executive Director,
Ontario Region -Department of Canadian Heritage.
 1999 to the present: Regional Executive Director, Ontario Region, Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage.
2003-2005: Member of Innoversity Advisory Board
2004-2006: Member of the Board of Trustees, United Way of Greater Toronto.
2005: Member, Mayor of Toronto’s Community Safety Panel
2005: Member, Mayor of Toronto’s Roundtable on Equity and Access
2002-2004: Chair of the Ontario Federal Council (OFC), the networking organization of senior federal officials in Ontario
2001-2003: Government of Canada representative to the Cabinet of the United Way of Greater Toronto
Over the past six years, Marie’s work at Canadian Heritage has focussed on developing access, outreach and inclusion strategies to enhance the Government of Canada’s work with a wide range of stakeholders including cultural, multicultural, racialized and francophone minority communities.
Prior to joining the Government of Canada, Marie worked at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, and was acting Director of Policy prior to her departure. During her ten years with the Ministry of the Attorney General, Marie’s work included law reform aimed at enhancing public accountability of lawyers and police officers, work with racialized communities to address systemic bias in the justice system, and the establishment of community based aboriginal justice projects in remote communities. In 1997, she began work at Justice Canada where she was responsible for directing a review of public legal education and implementing a national strategy on diversity, equality and access to justice. She has been a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and participates on several community boards.
Born in Montreal, Marie grew up in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Her parents are immigrants -- her father fled Franco's Spain and her Spanish grandmother was the first woman to be considered for induction into the Spanish literary institution: La Real Academia Espanola. Her mother's parents were born in India and immigrated to Ireland in l919. Her Indian born grandmother is , at 113 years of age, the ‘Oldest person in the British Isles” according to the Guinness Book of World Records!
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