Name Monique Taylor Children 1 | Domestic partner Mike Political party New Democrat | |
Occupation Administrative assistant | ||
Monique Taylor (born (1972-06-28)June 28, 1972) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represents the riding of Hamilton Mountain. She has been an MPP since 2011.
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Background
Taylor was born in east end of Hamilton and grew up in the city. She has worked as a waitress and most recently as administrative assistant to Hamilton City Councillor Scott Duvall.
Politics
In 2011 she ran as the New Democrat candidate in the riding of Hamilton Mountain. She beat Liberal incumbent Sophia Aggelonitis by 5,798 votes. She was re-elected in the 2014 provincial election defeating Liberal candidate Javid Mirza by 8,483 votes.
In 2012 she introduced a private member's bill that would have extended Ontario ombudsman's oversight to Children Aid Societies. The bill made it to second reading but the bill died when Premier Dalton McGuinty prorogued the house in September 2012.
She is the NDP's critic for children and youth services, and critic for accessibility and persons with disabilities.
In May 2016, Taylor was ejected from the legislature for repeatedly refusing the Speaker's requests to stop yelling while debating a new Ontario Autism Program with $333 million in funding, but which would move kids with autism older than five to a longer but less intensive therapy program and compensate their families with $8000 for being taken off the intensive therapy waitlist.