Jane Philpott

Jane Philpott    ( politician,  physician)
Born	23 November 1960
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Member of	Trudeau Government
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Canadian cabinet minister who was forced out by Justin Trudeau  Canada/Minister/President of the Treasury Board In office January 14, 2019 - March 4, 2019 Appointed by Justin Trudeau  Canada/Minister/Indigenous Services In office August 28, 2017 - January 14, 2019 Appointed by Justin Trudeau  Canada/Minister/Health In office November 4, 2015 - August 28, 2017 Appointed by Justin Trudeau  Member of the Canadian Parliament for Markham—Stouffville In office October 19, 2015 - October 21, 2019 Preceded by Steven Blaney, Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney elected as a liberal, ran again as an Independent in 2019 but was defeated

Jane Philpott is a Canadian politician and physician who represents the electoral district of Markham-Stouffville in the House of Commons of Canada. A member of the Liberal Party, Philpott was first elected in the 2015 Canadian federal election and was appointed to the Cabinet of Justin Trudeau's government on 4 November 2015.

Resignation

On 4 March 2019, Jane Philpott resigned from her cabinet position as Treasury Board president in the crisis over alleged political interference and pressure on the former attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to halt a criminal prosecution against the Montreal-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin.

"It grieves me to resign from a portfolio where I was at work to deliver an important mandate. I must abide by my core values, my ethical responsibilities, constitutional obligations. There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them."

Physician fund raiser

Jane Philpott came to politics following a career as a doctor, including nine years working in Niger, where her 2-year-old daughter died from meningitis on what she has called “the worst day of my life.” In 2004, she founded the charity Give a Day to World AIDS, which has raised millions of dollars.

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