Julie Dzerowicz

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Julie Dzerowicz
MP
Member of Parliament
for Davenport
Incumbent
Assumed office
October 19, 2015
Preceded byAndrew Cash
Personal details
Born
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PartyLiberal
Residence(s)Brockton Village,[1] Toronto, Ontario
Alma materMcGill University (BCom)
University of British Columbia (MBA)

Juliana Roma "Julie" Dzerowicz MP (/ˈdzɛrəwɪts/[2]) is a Canadian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, she has represented the Toronto riding of Davenport in the House of Commons of Canada since her initial election in 2015, and was reelected in 2019, 2021, and 2025. She is a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and serves as one of its vice presidents. Since 2025 she has also served at the Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, and as the elected Chair of the Toronto Caucus of Liberal MPs.

Early life and education

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Dzerowicz was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Ukrainian father and a Mexican mother, Maria Amparo Lizarraga Zataran, from Recodo.[3][4][5] She graduated from McGill University with a bachelor of commerce in 1994.[6] She completed her final term at Institut Commercial de Nancy in France. Dzerowicz was heavily involved in leadership roles at McGill, and served as the vice-president internal of the Students' Society of McGill University.

She received the Scarlet Key Award in 1994, which is awarded to "students who have demonstrated indubitable qualities of leadership, unselfishness and perseverance by their outstanding contributions to the McGill community."[7][8]

After completing a master of business administration at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she served on the UBC Senate, Dzerowicz finished her degree at the London Business School.

Career

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Pre-2015

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Prior to seeking elected office, Dzerowicz worked in both the public service and the private sector. In the Ontario government, she served for approximately four years as a senior policy adviser, and in 2011 she worked as a chief of staff.[9]

She spent more than two decades in senior roles in investment banking, commercial banking, and biotechnology; while at the Bank of Montreal she contributed to the development and launch of Canada’s email money transfer service.[10]

In 2010, she co-founded Project Neutral, a Toronto non-profit that helps neighbourhoods measure and reduce carbon emissions.[11] She was also a founding board member of JUMP Math, a Canadian charity promoting numeracy education.[12]

Dzerowicz was Vice-Chair of the Ontario Liberal Party’s 2011 platform committee.[10]

As a Member of Parliament

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After a lengthy nomination process in 2015, Dzerowicz successfully secured the Liberal Party of Canada's nomination as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Davenport. In October 2015, she became the first female Member of Parliament for Davenport.[13]

In 2017, Dzerowicz was criticized for a copy-paste social media post based on a template sent to Liberal Caucus members expressing LGBTQ solidarity, where she forgot to insert the name of her riding into the post.[14]

In February 2021, Dzerowicz introduced a private member's bill, Bill C-273, into the House of Commons of Canada calling upon the Minister of Finance to develop a national strategy for a guaranteed basic income.[15]

In June 2021, Dzerowicz invited constituents to ask her questions via the Reddit discussion website.[16] During the online conversation she was criticized for wrongly stating on Twitter that the 2020 Port of Montreal strike had lasted 2.5 years, and for another tweet in which The Hill Times stated she was mocking a constituent who asked about the Canadian government's legal fight with survivors of Canada's residential school system.[16] Dzerowicz's calls for more funding for affordable housing and universal basic income were better received.[16] Dzerowicz did not answer questions about the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission wholesale internet rates or the government's change of policy away from electoral reform.[16]

Following the 2021 Canadian Federal Election, Dzerowicz was re-elected to represent Davenport.[17] A judicial recount was initiated by Elections Canada, at the request of the New Democratic Party (NDP) because of the margin of victory was under 100 votes over the NDP's Alejandra Bravo.[18] With the recount in progress, it became obvious that Dzerowicz won by 76 votes and the recount was stopped soon after it started.[19]

In December 2021, Dzerowicz, acting as the chair of the Liberal Immigration caucus, responded to criticism from within her own party about delays to processing immigration claims, stating that work needs to be done and committing to future improvements.[20]

In March 2024, Dzerowicz broke ranks with her party by calling for an arms embargo on Israel, citing calls from constituents and a February 23 statement from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which warned that arms exports to Israel could violate international humanitarian law if used in Gaza. She stressed the need to protect innocent Palestinian civilians.[21]

In June 2024, Dzerowicz’s office in Davenport was vandalized with red paint, and the words “Rafah is burning, Toronto will too” were spray-painted on the building.[22]

In the 2025 Canadian federal election, Dzerowicz was re-elected as Member of Parliament for Davenport, receiving 35,364 votes (57.8 per cent), defeating candidates from the Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party.[23]

Electoral record

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2025 Canadian federal election: Davenport
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Julie Dzerowicz 35,364 57.82 +14.22
Conservative Francis Lavoie 14,189 23.20 +12.35
New Democratic Sandra Sousa 10,452 17.1 –22.50
Green Lilian Barrera 782 1.3 –1.13
Communist Dave McKee 387 0.6 N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots 528
Turnout 61,174 65.91
Eligible voters 92,792
Liberal notional hold Swing +0.94
Source: Elections Canada[24]
2021 Canadian federal election: Davenport
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Julie Dzerowicz 19,930 42.13 -1.59 $101,254.58
New Democratic Alejandra Bravo 19,854 41.97 +0.95 $102,816.01
Conservative Jenny Kalimbet 4,774 10.09 +0.84 $6,403.32
People's Tara Dos Remedios 1,499 3.17 +2.24 $3,001.04
Green Adrian Currie 1,087 2.30 -2.21 $14,660.32
Independent Troy Young 86 0.18 none listed
Independent Chai Kalevar 77 0.16 +0.01 none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit 47,307 99.10 – $109,525.37
Total rejected ballots 429 0.90 +0.12
Turnout 47,736 61.07 -4.26
Eligible voters 78,167
Source: Elections Canada[25][26]
2019 Canadian federal election: Davenport
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Julie Dzerowicz 22,813 43.6 -0.66 $92,294.42
New Democratic Andrew Cash 21,341 40.8 -0.56 none listed
Conservative Sanjay Bhatia 5,014 9.6 -0.95 $35,793.71
Green Hannah Conover-Arthurs 2,341 4.5 +1.41 none listed
People's Francesco Ciardullo 492 0.9 - none listed
Communist Elizabeth Rowley 137 0.3 -0.23 $626.70
Independent Troy Young 85 0.2 - none listed
Independent Chai Kalevar 80 0.2 -0.02 $1,610.25
Total valid votes/expense limit 52,303 100.0  
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters 79,822
Liberal hold Swing -0.05
Source: Elections Canada[27][28]
2015 Canadian federal election: Davenport
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Julie Dzerowicz 21,947 44.26 +16.36 $81,434.76
New Democratic Andrew Cash 20,506 41.36 -12.36 $113,630.62
Conservative Carlos Oliveira 5,233 10.55 -3.67 $8,821.20
Green Dan Stein 1,530 3.09 -0.33 $8,434.06
Communist Miguel Figueroa 261 0.53 – –
Independent Chai Kalevar 107 0.22 – $1,430.00
Total valid votes/expense limit 49,584 100.00   $205,012.65
Total rejected ballots 287 0.58 –
Turnout 49,871 69.19 –
Eligible voters 72,082
Liberal gain from New Democratic Swing +14.36
Source: Elections Canada[29][30]


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