Andrea Khanjin

Andrea Daria Khanjin (born December 27, 1987) is a Canadian politician who has been the Ontario minister of the environment, conservation and parks since 2023 and the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Barrie—Innisfil since 2018. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Khanjin was previously her caucus' deputy house leader from 2020 to 2024 and deputy party whip from 2022 to 2023. She was also a parliamentary assistant from 2018 to 2023. Khanjin is the first Jewish woman to be a PC cabinet minister.

Politics

Khanjin ran as the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate in the 2018 Ontario general election for the riding of Barrie-Innisfil, won with 22,121 votes, and defeated the Liberal incumbent by 16,576 votes. She was re-elected in 2022 Ontario general election.

Following her election in 2018, during Khanjin's first term, she served as a member of Finance and Economic Affairs, Estimates, and Government Agencies Committees. During this term she also successfully introduced a private member's bill and co-sponsored two other bills. On June 5, 2019, she introduced an Act to proclaim the Provincial Day of Action on Litter as her private member's bill; on March 1, 2020, Khanjin and Cuzzetto introduced an Act to proclaim Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day and Thalassemia Awareness Day, and; she co-sponsored an Act to proclaim the month of August as Emancipation Month on December 8, 2021. All of these bills proceeded and received Royal Assents.

Provincial Day of Action on Litter

To raise awareness of the importance to a clean environment of not littering, Khanjin introduced an Act to proclaim the Provincial Day of Action on Litter every second Tuesday in May in each year as her first private member's bill.

Ontario marks the First Provincial Day of Action on Litter at the Innisfil Beach Park in the Town of Innisfil on May 12, 2020.

Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day and Thalassemia Awareness Day

On June 3, 2021, Bill 255, Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day and Thalassemia Awareness Day Act, 2021 of Khanjin and Cuzzetto received royal assent. This bill proclaims that June 19 as Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day and May 8 as Thalassemia Awareness Day in Ontario would increase awareness of these blood disorders in our province and dedicate a day to support individuals who have sickle cell disease or thalassemia and their families.

Emancipation Month

Andrea Khanjin co-sponsored Bill 75, Emancipation Month Act, 2021 proclaiming August as Emancipation Month.

Electoral Record

References

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1987 births
Living people
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs
21st-century Canadian women politicians
Women MPPs in Ontario
Jewish Canadian politicians
Canadian people of Russian-Jewish descent
University of Ottawa alumni
Jewish women politicians
21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario