Twenty years of
doing the work.
From St. Peter's, Cape Breton, Amanda is a community leader, economic builder, and running for Nova Scotia Liberal Party Leadership.
Rooted in community.
Built on results.
Amanda Mombourquette is a community leader, economic developer, mother, wife, and elected official from St. Peter's, Cape Breton. She is proud to have served as Warden of the Richmond County Council and is the current Deputy Warden.
She is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University where she earned her Bachelor's in Business Administration, majoring in Information Systems. Her past employment with the Strait Area Chamber of Commerce and NSCC has given her significant experience in workforce planning, small business advocacy, regional economic strategy, and the labour market. Amanda has helped tackle some of the most pressing issues being faced by Nova Scotians as a founding member of organizations including Cape Breton South Recruiting for Health and the At Home Housing Association. She is also the Co-Chair of the Bras d'Or Lakes Collaborative Environmental Protection Initiative. Her community leadership extends to her time in senior management with the Centre for Entrepreneurship, Education and Development in Halifax, housing advocacy through the Strait Richmond Housing Matters Coalition, and her senior role at the Strait-Highlands Regional Development Agency.
Amanda is excited to be running to be the next leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party. She knows that our party needs a leader to respond directly to what members across the province have been asking for: someone who will rebuild, with our membership at its centre. Using a grassroots approach, combined with her experience, our party will work together to create the best path forward for Nova Scotians, resulting in a Liberal government.
What she's built.
A career spent in the field — not observing problems, solving them.
Richmond County Council
Elected to Richmond County Council, where she began building a record of community service, fiscal responsibility, and advocacy for rural Nova Scotia's unique needs within provincial and federal frameworks. Amanda also serves as Deputy Warden of Richmond County.
Richmond Co.
Deputy Warden — Richmond County
Served as Warden of Richmond County — the chief elected official of municipal government. Oversaw budgets, municipal services, infrastructure, and community development. Led the county's response after some of its most challenging setbacks, from economic pressures to the clean energy transition.
NSCC
Manager of Workforce Development — Nova Scotia Community College
Shaping province-wide workforce strategy and connecting Nova Scotians with the skills and training pathways that lead to careers. Bridging employer needs with post-secondary programming at scale.
Strait Area
Executive Director — Strait Area Chamber of Commerce
Led one of Cape Breton's most active regional chambers through a period of economic transition. Advocated for local businesses, drove investment attraction, built partnerships with government and industry, and championed economic development in communities that needed a strong voice.
Community & Economic Development Work — Cape Breton
More than two decades of community engagement, economic development work, and advocacy across the Strait of Canso region — long before entering elected office or taking on executive roles.
St. Peter's,
Cape Breton.
Home matters. Amanda didn't leave Cape Breton for opportunities elsewhere — she stayed and built them. That's not just a personal fact. It's a philosophy. You don't help communities by leaving them. You help them by being in them, understanding them, and fighting for them.
Cape Breton has shaped everything about how Amanda approaches leadership — the emphasis on community over politics, the respect for working people, the understanding that economic development isn't an abstraction but a concrete daily reality for families across this province.
