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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Refugee to Cabinet Minister

Inspiring and refreshing:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/11/04/maryam-monsef_n_8468048.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-politics

Canada’s newest democratic institutions minister is a 30-year-old woman who fled Afghanistan with her widowed mother and two sisters when she was a child.
Maryam Monsef is the new MP for the bellwether Ontario riding of Peterborough–Kawartha. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau elevated her to his 31-member cabinet — making her the youngest minister and the fourth-youngest ever.
Monsef was born in Afghanistan and raised in the western city of Herat, near the Iranian border. She lost her father when she was a toddler and both her sisters were under the age of two. Her mother was in her 20s. No one knows for certain what happened to her father, Monsef told The Huffington Post Canada Tuesday in a phone interview from Peterborough.
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  1. UnknownNovember 7, 2015 at 12:56 PM

    There are several new Cabinet Ministers with life stories worth hearing. An inspiring group of leaders for sure. Unmuzzling Canadian scientists after years of oppression under the Conservative government was very welcome.

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