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Indira Naidoo-Harris is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a Tamil origin South African-Canadian. She is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2014. She represents the riding of Halton.
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- Background
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Background
Naidoo-Harris was born in South Africa to a Tamil origin parents and grew up in Alberta. She graduated from the University of Lethbridge and spent her early broadcasting career with NBC and PBS until coming to Ontario in the 1990s.
Prior to the election, she was a CBC Radio newsreader and a CBC Television journalist. She lives in Milton, Ontario with her husband Randy and their two children.
Politics
Naidoo-Harris ran in the 2011 provincial election as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Halton. She was defeated by Progressive Conservative incumbent Ted Chudleigh by 3,148 votes. She ran again in the 2014 election against Chudleigh this time defeating him by 5,726 votes.
From 2014 to 2016 she was a Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care. On June 13, 2016, she was named Associate Minister of Finance Responsible for the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan. On August 24, 2016 she was transferred from the pension role to a new educational ministerial position responsible for early year education and child care.