Ancestry of Stéphane Dion
Canada’s Ambassador to France

Stéphane Dion is a distinguished Canadian diplomat, public servant and academic, born on September 28, 1955 in Quebec City. He studied at Université Laval before obtaining a Doctorate in Sociology from the Institut d’études politiques in Paris, France.

On June 1, 2022, the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced the appointment of the Honourable Stéphane Dion as Canada’s Ambassador to France. Mr. Dion remains the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the European Union and Europe, a position he has held since 2017. He is also accredited to Monaco.

Prior to this role, Stéphane Dion was Canada’s Ambassador to Germany from 2017 to 2022. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet headed by Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2017.

In 2006, he became Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, a position that he retained until 2008. Mr. Dion was previously Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005. He served as a Member of Parliament first in 1996, representing Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, and was re-elected seven consecutive times.

Before entering politics, Mr. Dion taught Political Science at Université de Moncton in 1984, then at Université de Montréal from 1984 to 1995. He has authored many scientific articles and books on public administration, organizational studies, political institutions, and environmental policies.

A dual citizenship (French and Canadian)

His father Leon Dion (1922-1997), a well-known professor, married to Denyse Kormann (1929-2010) on June 4, 1951 in Paris (France). Stéphane Dion and his three brothers and one sister all have dual Canadian-French citizenship, obtained via his mother Denyse who was born in Paris.

Stéphane Dion, a cousin of Celine Dion, Justin Trudeau, Hillary Clinton, Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Justin Bieber, Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom…

perche-quebec.com has discovered that Stéphane Dion has many family ties with other celebrities in politics (Hillary Clinton, Justin Trudeau), music (Celine Dion, Madonna, Justin Bieber, Marie-Nicole Lemieux), the film industry (Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie) and royalty (Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom)!

perche-quebec.com has found out not less than:
• 909 family links with Marie-Nicole Lemieux
• 451 family links with Justin Bieber
• 392 family links with Fabienne Thibeault
• 323 family links with Xavier Dolan
• 298 family links with Marc Ouellet
• 253 family links with Isabelle Boulay
• 252 family links with Ginette Reno
• 203 family links with Hélène Mercier
• 187 family links with Celine Dion
• 187 family links with Jack Kerouac
• 184 family links with Jean Paul Lemieux
• 175 family links with Diane Tell
• 158 family links with Diane Dufresne
• 142 family links with Madonna
• 123 family links with Angelina Jolie
• 91 family links with Jim Carrey
• 90 family links with Ryan Gosling
• 89 family links with André Gagnon
• 75 family links with Justin Trudeau
• 62 family links with Hillary Clinton
• 30 family links with Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom
• 20 family links with Alanis Morissette

All those celebrities have in common French-Canadian pioneers, and in particular Percheron pioneers.

For instance, the Percheron pioneer Zacharie Cloutier, an ancestor of most of the celebrities mentioned before, who was born in Mortagne-au-Perche.

As strange as it may seem, there is nothing exceptional about those family ties. As the Percheron pioneers were among the very first French settlers to arrive in what was then known as New France, most of North Americans with French-Canadian ancestry have Percheron blood and are more or less related.