Sam Oosterhoff
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Sam Oosterhoff MPP |
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| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Niagara West—Glanbrook |
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Assumed office November 17, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Tim Hudak |
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| Born | 1996/1997 (age 19–20) |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Residence | Vineland, Ontario |
Sam Oosterhoff (born 1996/1997) is the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the riding of Niagara-West Glanbrook. Oosterhoff is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and was elected in a November 2016 byelection. At 19 years old, he is the youngest Ontario MPP to ever be elected. The previous record was held by Reid Scott who was elected as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPP in 1948 at the age of 21.
Oosterhoff was born and raised in Vineland, Ontario, where he lived with his parents at the time of the byelection. He is a member of the Canadian Reformed Church.
Before being nominated, Oosterhoff briefly worked as legislative assistant and policy analyst on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. At the time of his election, he was in the middle of his first year studying political science at Brock University, which he entered after being homeschooled. After his election, he planned to resume his studies in January 2017 with night classes and summer school.
In October 2016, Oosterhoff was nominated as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook to replace Tim Hudak who resigned his seat that September. Former MP and current President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Rick Dykstra was the favoured candidate by both the party establishment and PC leader Patrick Brown, but Oosterhoff had more local support, including that of his church.
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