31 Facts About Caroline Mulroney

Caroline Mulroney served as Attorney General of Ontario from 2018 to 2019.

Caroline Mulroney grew up in Ottawa before attending university in the United States, and worked there for 12 years until 2005 when she returned to Canada, worked in financial services and became involved in charitable work.

Caroline Mulroney is the eldest of four children and only daughter of former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Caroline Mulroney and his wife, Mila.

Caroline Mulroney's father won the 1983 PC leadership race on her ninth birthday.

Caroline Mulroney's maternal grandfather, Dimitrije Pivnicki, was a Montreal psychiatrist whose patients included Margaret Trudeau.

Caroline Mulroney's father said in his biography that he believed that she was the most like him "in her mindset".

Caroline Mulroney mentioned in an interview with La Presse that she would have been the most likely to follow his footsteps and that he "would not want to be a candidate against her".

Caroline Mulroney has an undergraduate degree in Government from Harvard and a JD degree from New York University School of Law.

On July 29,2002, Caroline Mulroney was admitted into the New York Bar.

Caroline Mulroney was reinstated as an American lawyer on September 29,2017 after her law licence had lapsed.

In 2015, Caroline Mulroney became vice president at BloombergSen, a Toronto investment counselling firm, until 2 August 2017, when she took a leave of absence upon announcing her candidacy.

When she was 14, Caroline Mulroney campaigned for Lucien Bouchard during the 1988 Lac St Jean by-election.

Caroline Mulroney felt betrayed after Bouchard defected from her father's party to the Bloc Quebecois.

Caroline Mulroney's father had previously revealed that she had consulted him over a career in politics and that she had decided to enter provincial instead of federal politics to be closer to her family.

Caroline Mulroney has the most support from the federal Conservative caucus with 10 members.

Caroline Mulroney was supported by at least four former Patrick Brown advisers: PC campaign chair Walied Soliman, ex-campaign manager Andrew Boddington, ad guru Dan Robertson, and strategist Hamish Marshall, the former director of controversial website The Rebel Media and the Conservative Campaign Chair for the 43rd Federal Election.

On February 4,2018, Caroline Mulroney expressed concern to the Toronto Star that sending her children to private school might be used as political fodder, and after the leaders' debate on February 28,2018, she walked away from the post debate scrum when being asked about why she sends her children to private schools by the Ottawa Citizen David Reevely.

Caroline Mulroney was criticised by some, including Doug Ford, for living most of her adult life in the United States, but she dismissed that by saying: "I've lived the majority of my life in Canada and Ontario".

Notwithstanding her previous statements of having "great confidence" in Brown, Caroline Mulroney tweeted disapproval of his decision to run.

Caroline Mulroney urged Brown to resign from the leadership race and asked the other candidates to join her call.

On June 29,2018, Premier Doug Ford appointed Caroline Mulroney to be the Attorney General of Ontario, despite never having practised law in Canada, and Minister of Francophone Affairs in his Executive Council.

Caroline Mulroney facilitated the modernization and first updates to Ontario's French Language Services Act in over 35 years.

Caroline Mulroney voted in support of the Ford government's September 2018 proposal to use Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, commonly called the "notwithstanding clause", to overrule a judge's decision that legislation intended to shrink the size of Toronto City Council was in fact in violation of Charter rights.

In 2019, Caroline Mulroney was shuffled to be Minister of Transportation, and kept the Francophone Affairs portfolio.

On June 27,2023, Caroline Mulroney was administratively called to the bar as a lawyer in Ontario.

Three days later, on June 30, Caroline Mulroney was awarded the King's Counsel designation, which had been revived after having been discontinued in 1988 over its perception as a tool for rewarding political patronage rather than lawyerly skill.

Caroline Mulroney endorsed Pierre Poilievre in the 2025 Canadian federal election.

Caroline Mulroney introduced him at a press conference in Toronto.

Caroline Mulroney is opposed to the introduction of a carbon tax.

Caroline Mulroney remained committed to spending $1 billion to build Hamilton's light rail transit system, but on Dec 16,2019, the province announced it was withdrawing the promised funding.

Caroline Mulroney had the first of their four children on October 30,2004, while still living in New York.