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Cathy Cox is a Canadian provincial politician, who was elected as the Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (french: Assemblée législative du Manitoba) is the deliberative assembly of the Manitoba Legislature in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly at provincial gener ...
for the riding of River East in the 2016 election. She is a member of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (french: Parti progressiste-conservateur du Manitoba) is a centre-right political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is currently the governing party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, after winnin ...
(PCs). She held the riding for the party after incumbent MLA
Bonnie Mitchelson Bonnie Mitchelson (born November 28, 1947) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba legislature from 1986 to 2014, and served as a cabinet minister ...
did not stand for re-election. On 3 May 2016, when the PC government was officially sworn in, Cox was appointed to the
Executive Council of Manitoba The Executive Council of Manitoba (french: Conseil exécutif du Manitoba), more commonly known as the Cabinet of Manitoba, is the cabinet of the Canadian province of Manitoba. As of 2022, the current cabinet are members of the Progressive Conserv ...
as Minister of Sustainable Development. On 17 August 2017, Cox was named Minister of Sport, Culture and Heritage. She was re-elected for
Kildonan-River East Kildonan-River East is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Manitoba that first came into effect for the 2019 Manitoba general election. It elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. The riding was create ...
in the 2019 provincial election, the first after the decennial electoral redistribution that occurred the previous year.


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Living people Politicians from Winnipeg Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba MLAs Members of the Executive Council of Manitoba Women MLAs in Manitoba Women government ministers of Canada 21st-century Canadian women politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Manitoba-politician-stub