Andrea Horwath
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Andrea Horwath MPP |
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| Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party | |
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Assumed office March 7, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Howard Hampton |
| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Hamilton Centre Hamilton East (2004-2007) |
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Assumed office May 13, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Dominic Agostino |
| Hamilton, Ontario City Councillor | |
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In office December 1, 1997 – June 16, 2004 Serving with Ron Corsini (1997-2000) |
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| Preceded by | Vince Agro Bill McCulloch |
| Succeeded by | Bob Bratina |
| Constituency | Ward Two |
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October 24, 1962 Hamilton, Ontario |
| Political party | New Democratic |
| Alma mater | McMaster University |
| Occupation | Community development coordinator |
Andrea Horwath, MPP (pronounced Horvath; born October 24, 1962) is a Canadian politician. She is the Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party in Canada. She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Hamilton Centre, and was chosen as the party's leader at its 2009 leadership convention.
She is the first woman to lead the Ontario New Democratic Party, and one of only three women to serve as leader of a political party with representation in the provincial legislature (Liberals Kathleen Wynne and Lyn McLeod are the other two).
Horwath was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Labour Studies from McMaster University in that city. She worked part-time as a waitress to pay her way through university. Her father Andrew, an ethnic Hungarian, had immigrated to Canada from Slovakia, and worked on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Oakville, Ontario. Her mother is of French and Irish descent.
She worked closely with the Hamilton labour movement for several years, programming and providing literacy, numeracy and ESL training for workers. She subsequently got involved in the cooperative housing movement in Welland, and later became a community development coordinator for Hamilton's McQuesten Legal & Community Services, providing public legal education to groups working with tenants, injured workers and people with disabilities.
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