Mitzie Hunter
Mitzie Hunter MPP | |
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Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Scarborough—Guildwood | |
Assumed office September 9, 2013 | |
Preceded by | Margarett Best |
Personal details | |
Born | Jamaica | September 14, 1971
Political party | Liberal |
Residence | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Alma mater | University of Toronto at Scarborough, Rotman School of Management |
Occupation | Politician |
Mitzie Hunter (born September 14, 1971) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was first elected in a by-election on August 1, 2013 and later re-elected in the elections of 2014 and 2018. She represents the Toronto riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. She served as a member of cabinet in the government of Kathleen Wynne. She was a candidate for the 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election. She was a candidate for the 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, having placed fourth place with 5.7% of the ballot.[1]
Background[]
Hunter and her family immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in 1975. She grew up in Scarborough, graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA, and completed her MBA from the Rotman School of Management.[2]
She was CEO of the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance, and was previously CAO of Toronto Community Housing. She also served as Vice President at Goodwill Industries of Toronto.[3]
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.[4] She faced Kirupa again in 2014 this time defeating him by 7,610 votes.[5]
In June 2014, she was appointed as an Associate Minister for the Ministry of Finance responsible for the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan.[6] On June 13, 2016, she was promoted to the senior position of Minister of Education.[7]
On January 17, 2018, it was announced that Ms. Hunter would leave her position as Minister of Education to replace outgoing Deb Matthews as the new Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development.[8]
On August 14, 2019, Hunter announced her candidacy for the 2020 Ontario Liberal Party leadership race. At the leadership convention on March 7, 2020, she finished fourth.[9]
Cabinet positions[]
Electoral record[]
2018 Ontario general election: Scarborough—Guildwood | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Mitzie Hunter | 11,972 | 33.34 | -16.72 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Roshan Nallaratnam | 11,898 | 33.14 | +5.42 | ||||
New Democratic | Tom Packwood | 9,917 | 27.62 | +10.7 | ||||
Green | Linda Rice | 878 | 2.45 | -0.49 | ||||
Libertarian | Hamid-Reza Dehnad-Tabatabaei | 445 | 1.24 | -0.12 | ||||
Trillium | George Marcos Garvida | 419 | 1.17 | |||||
Special Needs | Wanda Ryan | 159 | 0.44 | |||||
The People | Heather Dunbar | 151 | 0.42 | |||||
Independent | Benjamin Mbaegbu | 66 | 0.18 | |||||
Total valid votes | 35,905 | 100.0 | ||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -11.05 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[10] |
2014 Ontario general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Mitzie Hunter | 17,498 | 50.06 | +14.21 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Ken Kirupa | 9,688 | 27.72 | -3.08 | ||||
New Democratic | Shuja Syed | 5,915 | 16.92 | -11.43 | ||||
Green | Jeffrey W. R. Bustard | 1,029 | 2.94 | +0.79 | ||||
Libertarian | Richard Kerr | 476 | 1.36 | +0.87 | ||||
Freedom | Khalid Mokhtarzada | 228 | 0.65 | +0.33 | ||||
Canadians' Choice | John Sawdon | 120 | 0.34 | |||||
Total valid votes | 34,954 | 100.0 | ||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +8.64 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[11] |
Ontario provincial by-election, August 1, 2013 Resignation of Margarett Best | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Mitzie Hunter | 8,852 | 35.85 | -13.09 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Ken Kirupa | 7,605 | 30.80 | +2.15 | ||||
New Democratic | Adam Giambrone | 7,000 | 28.35 | +8.93 | ||||
Green | Nick Leeson | 532 | 2.15 | +0.86 | ||||
Independent | Jim Hamilton | 195 | 0.79 | |||||
Special Needs | Danish Ahmed | 183 | 0.74 | |||||
Libertarian | Heath Thomas | 120 | 0.49 | -0.79 | ||||
Family Coalition | Raphael Rosch | 104 | 0.42 | |||||
Freedom | Matthew Oliver | 80 | 0.32 | -0.10 | ||||
The People | Bill Rawdah | 22 | 0.09 | |||||
Total valid votes | 24,693 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 180 | 0.72 | ||||||
Turnout | 24,873 | 35.83 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 69,425 | |||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -7.62 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario[12] |
References[]
- ^ "Former cabinet minister Steven Del Duca elected new Ontario Liberal leader".
- ^ Rushowy, Kristin (July 23, 2016). "At-risk students, special ed priorities for new Education Minister Mitzie Hunter". Toronto Star.
- ^ "Ontario Liberals Announce Mitzie Hunter As Candidate For Scarborough-Guildwood". ontarioliberal.ca. June 13, 2017.
- ^ "Liberal Mitzie Hunter nabs Scarborough riding seat". CBC News. August 1, 2013.
- ^ "General Election by District: Scarborough-Guildwood". Elections Ontario. June 12, 2014. Archived from the original on June 17, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 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.
- ^ "Wynne shuffling cabinet to add new blood and replace retiring ministers". Toronto Star. January 17, 2018.
- ^ Gibson, Victoria (March 7, 2020). "Steven Del Duca named Ontario Liberal leader in first-ballot victory". iPolitics. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- ^ "General Election Results by District, 082 Scarborough—Guildwood". Elections Ontario. 2014. Archived from the original on 17 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
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