Khalil Ramal

Khalil Ramal
Ontario MPP
In office 2003–2011
Preceded by	Frank Mazzilli
Succeeded by	Teresa Armstrong
Constituency	London—Fanshawe
Personal details
Born	1960 (age 56–57) Lebanon
Political party	Ontario Liberal Party Liberal Party of Canada
Residence	London, Ontario
Occupation	Teacher, journalist

Khalil Ramal (born c. 1960) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2011. Ramal won the federal Liberal nomination for London—Fanshawe in 2015. Khalil Ramal ran unsuccessfully in the 2015 federal elections, but finished second after Irene Mathyssen of the rival New Democratic Party by a difference of around 3600 votes.

Ramal has a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and a Master of Arts degree in social politics from Lebanese University, and has received further diplomas in accounting and teaching. At the time of the 2003 election, he was pursuing a Ph.D. in social politics.

He arrived in Canada in 1989, after leaving war-ravaged Lebanon, and has worked as a teacher, journalist, and as a counsellor with physical and mentally disabled patients at the Oxford Regional Centre in . He also runs a small business, and has served as Vice President of the Orchard Farm Distribution Company.

Ramal was elected for London—Fanshawe in the 2003 provincial election, defeating New Democrat Irene Mathyssen and incumbent Progressive Conservative Frank Mazzilli in a close three-way race.

On September 27, 2004, Ramal was named parliamentary assistant to Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

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