Markham-Stouffville MP Jane Philpott part of cabinet shuffle

yorkregion.com
Aug. 28, 2017
By Simon Martin

The last week of summer brought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s largest cabinet shuffle and Markham-Stouffville MP and former health minister Jane Philpott was in the middle of the move.

Philpott will lead the new Ministry of Indigenous Services. Prior to the shuffle, Carolyn Bennett had been Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, but certain responsibilities have been shifted in the new alignment, as Bennett is now minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs.

As part of her new job description, Philpott is expected to be tasked with helping to implement an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Prior to entering politics, Philpott led an extensive career in family medicine, public health, medical education and global advocacy for HIV/AIDS.

Philpott studied medicine at the University of Western Ontario, completed a family medicine residency at the University of Ottawa, and a tropical medicine fellowship in Toronto. In 2012, she completed a master of public health degree at the University of Toronto.

In 1998, she and her husband, Pep, moved to Stouffville, where she practiced as a family physician at Markham Stouffville Hospital for more than 15 years and served as chief of family medicine from 2008 to 2014.