Pascale St-Onge

Pascale St-Onge is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Brome—Missisquoi in the House of Commons of Canada from 2021 Canadian federal election until 2025. She served as the Minister of Canadian Heritage from 2023 to 2025 and Minister of Tourism and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec from February to March 2025. She also held the latter position from 2021 to 2023, when she was also Minister of Sport from 2021 to 2023. Her appointment to cabinet in 2021 made her the first openly lesbian Canadian cabinet minister. In February 2025, St-Onge announced that she would not run in that year's federal election.