Maria Mourani (born 19 May 1969) is a Canadian politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the federal riding of Ahuntsic in Canada.
She was formerly a member of the Bloc Québécois before leaving the party over its support for the proposed Quebec Charter of Values.
On 15 August 2008, she was awarded an honorary medal in Beirut, Lebanon by the World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU).
She was consequently assigned as the Bloc Québécois Critic on Public Security and on the Status of Women in the Canadian Parliament.
[8] She was expelled from the Bloc Quebecois caucus on 12 September 2013, for opposing the Quebec Charter of Values and subsequently sat as an independent for the remainder of her term as MP.
[citation needed] After the 2015 elections, she opened a consultancy office Mourani-Criminologie on criminology with a concentration on issues of organized crime and gangs, juvenile delinquency, human trafficking, prostitution and international terrorism.