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Stephanie Kusie (born 1973) is a
Canadian
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politician and former diplomat who was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada in a
by-election on April 3, 2017.
["Conservative Kusie cruises to victory in Calgary-Midnapore, takes over for Kenney"]
660 News, April 3, 2017. She represents the electoral district of
Calgary Midnapore
Calgary Midnapore is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. It has been represented by Stephanie Kusie since she won the 2017 by-election.
Calgary Midnapore was ...
in
Alberta
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as a member of the
Conservative Party of Canada[ and serves as ]Shadow
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Minister of Treasury Board in the .
Personal life
Kusie received a B.A. in political science from the University of Calgary
The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being ins ...
and an M.B.A. from Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...
. She was chargé d'affaires ad interim for Canada to El Salvador and consul for Canada to Dallas
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, Texas
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. She served as a senior policy advisor to Peter Kent
James Peter Kent (born July 27, 1943) is a former Canadian journalist and former politician who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Thornhill from 2008 to 2021. He served as Minister of the Environment in the 28th ...
on Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
.Keystone Pipeline
The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and owned by TC Energy and as of 31 March 2020 the Government of Alberta. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alber ...
project, and lobbying the United Nations to place Canada on the Security Council.
Political career
Kusie ran for Calgary City Council
The Calgary City Council is the legislative governing body that represents the citizens of Calgary. The council consists of 15 members: the chief elected official, titled the mayor, and 14 councillors. Jyoti Gondek was elected mayor in October 202 ...
in 2013 but did not win a seat. After the election, she worked on Preston Manning
Ernest Preston Manning (born June 10, 1942) is a Canadian retired politician. He was the founder and the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance in 2000 which in tur ...
's Municipal Governance Project.Jason Kenney
Jason Thomas Kenney (born May 30, 1968) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 18th premier of Alberta from 2019 until 2022 and the leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) from 2017 until 2022. He also served as the member of ...
, who had resigned as Calgary Midnapore's Conservative MP in 2016.
After being elected in 2017, Kusie was appointed as the Official Opposition Deputy Shadow Minister for Health. In September 2018, she took over the position of Official Opposition Shadow Minister for Democratic Institutions and became a vice-chair of the Standing Committee of Procedure and House Affairs In the same year, she accepted invitations to become a member of both the Trilateral Commission
The Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. It was founded in July 1973 principally by American banker and philanthropist David ...
and CANZUK
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. She was most recently elected to the executive committee of the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas Interparliamentary Association.
Following the fall 2019 general election, Kusie served as the Shadow Minister for Families, Children, and Social Development, a role she held until September 2020, when incoming Conservative Party Leader, Erin O’Toole, appointed her as the Shadow Minister of Transport in his new Shadow Cabinet.
Kusie was re-elected in the 2021 federal election. Following the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election,
Electoral record
Federal
Municipal
References
External links
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Living people
Canadian women diplomats
Women members of the House of Commons of Canada
Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta
Rutgers University alumni
University of Calgary alumni
Women in Alberta politics
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian women politicians
Politicians from Calgary
1973 births