Published: 19 June 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
IF SHE WINS, Annamie Paul would be both the first Black person and the first Jewish person to lead a federal or provincial party in the country.
Those facts aren’t lost on her — they’re a big part of her motivation.
“We have a profound lack of diversity at the highest levels in our political leadership and it has always been the case,” said Paul, 47, who was born and raised in Toronto. “We have to do something about it — not only for reasons of equity, but also because there’s decades of research that confirms you get better public policy results when you have diversity at the table.”
For Paul, studies on the benefits of diversity in the public sector are more than figures and statistics — they’re her experience. She’s a lawyer who has dedicated her career to public affairs, working for Canada’s mission to the European Union, advising the International Criminal Court and serving as executive director of the Barcelona International Policy Action Plan, which aims to cultivate NGOs and other public policy centres.
FULL STORY Annamie Paul wants to be the first Black-Jewish leader of a Canadian party (JTA)
Photo: Annamie Paul is trying to make Canadian Jewish history. (Courtesy of Paul)
