Joanne Thompson

About

Liberal MP for St. John's East since 2021 and Minister of Fisheries in the Carney cabinet. Before politics she spent decades in the non-profit and social-services sector in Newfoundland and Labrador, including founding a community organization addressing food security and poverty in St. John's. Her fisheries portfolio covers the Atlantic and Pacific commercial fisheries, the snow-crab and northern-cod stocks, and Canada's marine-protected-area commitments.