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The Honourable Tracy MacCharles, Ontario’s Minister of Government and Consumer Services

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

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The Empire Club of Canada Presents:
The Honourable Tracy MacCharles, Ontario’s Minister of Government and Consumer Services With Consumer Protection, New Homes, and the Homebuilding Industry

Tracy MacCharles was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 2011 as the MPP for Pickering Scarborough East. She was re elected in 2014. MacCharles currently serves as Minister of Government and Consumer Services, as well as Minister Responsible for Accessibility. She was previously Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues, Minister of Children and Youth Services, Minister of Consumer Services and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Children and Youth Services. MacCharles has more than 20 years of experience in human resources management in the private, public and not for profit sectors. She was Vice-President of Human Resources at Manulife Financial for the Corporate and Information Technology Divisions. In 2004, she established her own Human Resources practice focused on health care, community health, education, employment, human rights, discrimination prevention and business effectiveness. disability advocacy. She is a former Chair of the Ontario Accessibility Standards Advisory Council and also served on the Durham Board of Education’s Special Education Advisory Committee. She has been an active volunteer in her community and at the provincial level for numerous charities, including the Canadian Cancer Society – Scarborough Unit and the Ontario Division Board, the Big Sisters Association of Ajax Pickering, the United Way and as Chair of her local School Community Council. MacCharles is also an active volunteer in numerous charities. She received the City of Pickering’s Civic Award and the Volunteer of Distinction Award from Rosebank Road Public School. MacCharles and her husband, Stephen, live in Pickering with their two children, Travis and Geneviève

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The Honourable Tracy MacCharles, Ontario’s Minister of Government and Consumer Services

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