Mélanie Joly likes to talk tough. Now she has to deliver

APMA
Jan 9
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Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star

Dec 30, 2025

In a year-end interview with the Star, Joly said her plan is to protect and create jobs, as well as attract talent and investment. “She was very plain spoken, (delivered) straight talk about what she understood to be everybody’s obligations to each other and to the Canadian sector. I had never heard such straight talk from an industry minister to industry to this point,” said APMA President Flavio Volpe.

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