Mitzie Hunter

The Honourable Mitzie Hunter MPP


Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Scarborough—Guildwood
Incumbent
Assumed office September 9, 2013
Preceded by	Margarett Best
Personal details
Born	1971 (age 44–45) Jamaica
Political party	Liberal
Residence	Toronto, Ontario
Alma mater	University of Toronto at Scarborough
Occupation	Administrator

Mitzie Hunter (born c. 1971) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in a by-election on August 1, 2013. She represents the Toronto riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. She serves as a member of cabinet in the government of Kathleen Wynne.

Background

Hunter and her family immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in 1975. She grew up in Scarborough, graduated from the University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus) with a BA, and completed her MBA from the Rotman School of Management. She was CEO of the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance, and was previously CAO of Toronto Community Housing.

Politics

In 2013 she ran as the Liberal candidate in a by-election called to replace Margarett Best who resigned due to health reasons. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Ken Kirupa by 1,246 votes.^[1] She faced Kirupa again in 2014 this time defeating him by 7,610 votes.^[2]

In June 2014, she was appointed as an Associate Minister for the Ministry of Finance responsible for the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan.^[3] On June 13, 2016, she was promoted to the senior position of Minister of Education.^[4]

Cabinet positions

Cabinet Posts (2)
Provincial Government of Kathleen Wynne
Predecessor	Office	Successor
Liz Sandals	Minister of Education 2016-present	Incumbent
New position	Associate Minister of Finance 2014-2016 Responsible for Ontario Retirement Pension Plan	Indira Naidoo-Harris

References

↑ "Liberal Mitzie Hunter nabs Scarborough riding seat". CBC News. August 1, 2013.
↑ "General Election by District: Scarborough-Guildwood". Elections Ontario. June 12, 2014.
↑ Richard Brennan; Robert Benzie; Rob Ferguson (June 24, 2014). "Kathleen Wynne warns financial cupboard is bare". Toronto Star.
↑ "Kathleen Wynne's shuffled cabinet features 40% women". CBC News. June 13, 2016.

External links

Cabinet of Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne (2013–)

Jim Bradley Laurel Broten Michael Chan Bob Chiarelli Michael Coteau Dipika Damerla Steven Del Duca Brad Duguid Kevin Flynn Michael Gravelle Eric Hoskins Mitzie Hunter Helena Jaczek Linda Jeffrey Jeff Leal Tracy MacCharles Deb Matthews Ted McMeekin Madeleine Meilleur Reza Moridi Glen Murray Yasir Naqvi David Orazietti Teresa Piruzza Liz Sandals Mario Sergio Charles Sousa Harinder Takhar Kathleen Wynne David Zimmer

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

41st Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Liberal	Wynne Albanese Anderson Baker Ballard Berardinetti Bradley Chan Chiarelli Colle Coteau Crack Damerla Del Duca Delaney Des Rosiers Dhillon Dickson Dong Duguid Flynn Fraser Gravelle Hoggarth Hoskins Hunter Jaczek Kiwala Kwinter Lalonde Leal Levac MacCharles Malhi Mangat Martins Matthews Mauro McGarry McMahon McMeekin Milczyn Moridi Murray Naidoo-Harris Naqvi Orazietti Potts Qaadri Rinaldi Sandals Sergio Sousa Takhar Thibeault Vernile Wong Zimmer

Progressive Conservative	Brown Arnott Bailey Barrett Cho Clark Coe Fedeli Hardeman Harris Hillier Jones MacLaren MacLeod Martow McDonell McNaughton Miller Munro Nicholls Oosterhoff Pettapiece Scott Smith Thompson Walker Wilson Yakabuski Yurek

New Democratic	Horwath Armstrong Bisson Campbell DiNovo Fife Forster French Gates Gélinas Gretzky Hatfield Mantha Miller Natyshak Sattler Singh Tabuns Taylor Vanthof

Party leaders listed first (in bold italics). Government members in bold denotes cabinet.

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