Jinny Sims
| Jinny Sims | |
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| Shadow Minister for Employment | |
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In office August 13, 2013 – November 19, 2015 |
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| Leader | Thomas Mulcair |
| Preceded by | Chris Charlton |
| Succeeded by | Karen Vecchio |
| Shadow Minister for Immigration | |
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In office April 19, 2012 – August 13, 2013 |
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| Leader | Thomas Mulcair |
| Preceded by | Don Davies |
| Succeeded by | Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe |
| Shadow Minister for International Cooperation | |
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In office October 3, 2011 – April 18, 2012 |
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| Leader | Nycole Turmel |
| Preceded by | Hélène Laverdière |
| Succeeded by | Romeo Saganash |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Newton—North Delta |
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In office May 30, 2011 – October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Sukh Dhaliwal |
| Succeeded by |
Sukh Dhaliwal (Surrey—Newton) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 7, 1952 Jalandhar, Punjab, India |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Sims |
| Residence | Surrey, British Columbia |
Jinny Jogindera Sims (born June 7, 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. She represented the electoral district of Newton—North Delta as a member of the New Democratic Party.
Sims emigrated to England from Punjab, India at the age of nine. She earned a Bachelor of Education degree at the Victoria University of Manchester (now the University of Manchester). Sims and her husband moved to Canada in 1975, spending two years in Quebec before moving to Nanaimo where she was a high school teacher until the early-2000s. She was elected president of the BC Teachers' Federation in 2004 and served in that role until 2007. In her role as president of the BCTF, she was involved in the May 2005 provincial election when the BC Liberal Party, a week before the election, accused the BCTF of having a "secret plan" to strike two days after the election; the organization subsequently filed a defamation lawsuit. When the teachers, who had been working for over a year without a contract, did provide strike notice in September 2005, the provincial government immediately extended, by legislation, the last contract to June 2006 and made a potential strike illegal. Regardless, Sims led the teachers in job action, culminating in a two-week strike. The Labour Relations Board determined the strike illegal and the BC Supreme Court found the BCTF in civil contempt of court, fined the BCTF $500,000 and ordered the BCTF not pay the teachers a strike pay. The strike ended when the membership voted to accept a $150 million mediated settlement which both the government and the BCTF executive had endorsed. Sims's BCTF successfully negotiated a five-year contract in June 2006.
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