Harinder Kaur Malhi (born ) is a

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former

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, Canada. She was a

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member of the

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from 2014 to 2018 who represented the riding of

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, and was a member of the Ontario provincial cabinet in the government of

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Background

Malhi's family is of

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descent, and she speaks

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. Her father,

Gurbax Singh Malhi Gurbax Singh Malhi () (born 12 October 1949) is an Indian-born Canadian politician. A Liberal, he was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Bramalea—Gore—Malton in 1993, and served as its representative in the House of Commons fo ...

, was a

federal

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between 1993 and 2011, representing the riding of

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. Her mother is Devinder Malhi. Malhi studied at

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, where she obtained a degree in public administration and governance. She worked as a sales agent at a telecommunications company in Brampton, and then as a

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Politics

On 25 October 2010, she was elected as a school trustee for the

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, representing Brampton wards 9 and 10, during the 2010 municipal election. Malhi was selected as the Liberal candidate for the Brampton-Springdale riding after incumbent cabinet minister

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vacated the seat in March 2014 to run for the

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. She was elected MPP in the 2014 election and took an unpaid leave of absence from her position as school trustee, during the campaign. She served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport (2016–18), and as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister Responsible for Women's Issues (2014–16). In January 2018, she was promoted to

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as Minister of the Status of Women by

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. In the 2018 provincial election she ran in the new riding of

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, placing third, losing the seat to

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the

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. In the 2022 provincial election, she contested Brampton North once again, coming in second place, but this time losing to the Progressive Conservative candidate Graham McGregor.

Cabinet positions

Elections

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Malhi, Harinder 1980s births 21st-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian women politicians Canadian politicians of Indian descent Canadian real estate agents Canadian Sikhs Living people Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Ontario Liberal Party MPPs Ontario school board trustees Politicians from Brampton Women MPPs in Ontario Women government ministers of Canada