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Peggy Nash

Peggy Nash
Personal data
Date of birthJune 28, 1951(age 64)
Place of birthToronto, Ontario
Political partyNew Democratic Party
SpouseCarl Kaufman
Children3
ResidenceToronto
ProfessionLabour negotiator
Member of Parliament
Assumed officeMay 2, 2011
ConstituencyParkdale-High Park
Preceded byGerard Kennedy
Member of Parliament
In officeJanuary 23, 2006 - October 13, 2008
ConstituencyParkdale-High Park
Succeeded byGerard Kennedy
Preceded bySarmite Bulte
President of the New Democratic Party
In officeAugust 15, 2009 - June 18, 2011
Succeeded byBrian Topp
Preceded byAnne McGrath

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Peggy A. Nash (born June 28, 1951) is a Canadian labour official and politician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Parkdale-High Park electoral district (riding) in Toronto, and the Official Opposition's Finance Critic, in Canada's 41st parliament. Before becoming a parliamentarian, she worked as a labour official at the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW), where she became the first female to negotiate a major contract with one of the Detroit-based automobile corporations in 2005. She was first elected as the MP for Parkdale-High Park in the 2006 federal election. In the 2008 federal election, she was defeated in her re-election bid by Liberal candidate Gerard Kennedy. After her defeat, Nash returned to her previous job as a labour official with the CAW. She was elected to a two-year term as the federal NDP's President on August 15, 2009, at the party's convention in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She ran for parliament again in the 2011 federal election, and defeated Kennedy, to regain her former seat in the Canadian House of Commons.


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