Westmount–Saint-Louis

Maryam Kamali Nezhad

Candidate for the Canadian Party of Quebec in Westmount–Saint-Louis For Maryam Kamali Nezhad, public service means listening to citizens, defending their rights, and putting her experience to work in pursuit of practical solutions. Now a resident of Westmount, Maryam is an engineer, manager, entrepreneur, and former municipal councillor. A wife and mother, she has nearly 30 years of professional experience in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Specializing in hydraulics and hydrology, she holds a PhD from the Institut polytechnique de Grenoble in France. She also completed postdoctoral research at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and taught civil and mining engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. Since 2009, Maryam has worked at Hydro-Québec in hydroelectric generation planning and water resource management. Her work requires rigour, sound judgment, strong analytical skills, and long-term vision, particularly when balancing energy needs, infrastructure safety, and environmental protection. Alongside her professional career, she co-manages a Quebec company specializing in structural systems, industrial equipment, and storage solutions. This experience has given her a direct understanding of the realities faced by entrepreneurs, employers, and workers: rising costs, excessive red tape, high taxes, labour shortages, and difficulties accessing financing. Maryam believes Quebec has remarkable talent, abundant resources, and dynamic entrepreneurs, but that its economic potential is too often held back by bureaucracy, political uncertainty, and identity-based debates that distract from the province’s real priorities. She wants a Quebec that is more productive, more competitive, and more open to investment, trade within Canada, and international markets. From 2021 to 2025, Maryam served as a municipal councillor for the Town of Mount Royal. In that role, she defended transparency, fiscal responsibility, and meaningful public consultation. In 2025, she ran for mayor to promote a more accountable form of government that was closer to the people. This experience taught her that an elected representative must be willing to ask difficult questions, demand accountability, and remain true to her principles. A Canadian of Iranian origin, Maryam studied and worked in several countries before choosing Quebec and Canada as the place to build her life and raise her son. Her journey has taught her the value of democracy, individual freedom, the rule of law, equal opportunity, and political stability. Maryam is a committed federalist. She believes Quebec’s future lies within a strong and united Canada. She opposes Quebec sovereignty, as well as nationalist and identity-based policies that divide citizens, weaken their rights, and undermine Quebec’s economic stability. For Maryam, being both Quebecer and Canadian is not a contradiction. It is possible to take pride in Quebec culture, protect and promote the French language, and at the same time remain fully committed to Canada and its institutions. Able to communicate in both French and English, Maryam considers knowledge of both languages to be a cultural, social, and economic strength. She believes every citizen should be able to live, work, study, access government services, and feel fully at home in Quebec, regardless of which official language they speak. She supports promoting French through culture, education, economic opportunity, and inclusion—not by reducing the rights of another community. She believes in protecting the rights of Quebec’s English-speaking community, respecting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and ensuring equality for all citizens. Maryam is running as the Canadian Party of Quebec candidate in Westmount–Saint-Louis because she shares its core principles: Canadian unity, bilingualism, the rule of law, individual freedom, and democracy without division. She wants the government to refocus on the issues that truly affect people’s daily lives: the cost of living, the economy, access to health care, housing, taxation, infrastructure, and the responsible management of public funds. Maryam approaches these challenges with the rigour of an engineer, the experience of a manager, the understanding of an entrepreneur, and the listening skills she has developed through public service. Her commitment is clear: to defend the rights of Quebecers, contribute to their prosperity, and help build a bilingual, confident, and strong Quebec within a united Canada.