Monique Taylor | |
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Deputy Whip of the Ontario New Democratic Party | |
Assumed office February 1, 2021 Servingwith Michael Mantha | |
Leader | Peter Tabuns (interim) |
Critic,Children and Youth Services | |
Assumed office 23 August 2018 | |
Leader | Andrea Horwath Peter Tabuns (interim) |
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Hamilton Mountain | |
Assumed office 6 October 2011 | |
Preceded by | Sophia Aggelonitis |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] [2] Hamilton,Ontario,Canada | 28 June 1972
Political party | Ontario New Democratic |
Children | 1 |
Residence | Hamilton |
Occupation | Politician |
Monique Taylor MPP (born 28 June 1972) is a Canadian 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.
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. [3]
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. [4] [5] She was re-elected in the 2014 provincial election defeating Liberal candidate Javid Mirza by 8,483 votes. [6]
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. [7]
She is the NDP's critic for children and youth services,and critic for accessibility and persons with disabilities. [8]
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. [9]
In spring 2018,news reports surfaced that two human rights complaints were filed against Taylor by staffers in March 2018. [10] [11] One human rights complaint alleges Taylor attempted to force and coerce one of her assistants to accuse another coworker of sexual harassment to erroneously produce grounds for the employee's termination. [12] The other complaint details MPP Taylor bullying and discriminating against her staff. [13] The complaints were subsequently resolved in December of the same year. [14]
In February 2019,Taylor was ejected from the legislature after refusing to withdraw a remark where she accused the Progressive Conservative government led by Premier Doug Ford of lying to Ontario families about the autism waitlist. [15]
In April 2022,she co-sponsored a bill put forward by MPP Bill Walker that would declare each June in Ontario myasthenia gravis month. [16]
2022 Ontario general election : Hamilton Mountain | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Monique Taylor | 15,250 | 44.81 | -9.77 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Mike Spadafora | 10,211 | 30.00 | +5.17 | ||||
Liberal | Chantale Lachance | 5,300 | 15.57 | +6.33 | ||||
Green | Janet Errygers | 1,913 | 5.62 | +0.48 | ||||
New Blue | Baylee Nguyen | 770 | 2.26 | |||||
Ontario Party | Andy Busa | 590 | 1.73 | |||||
Total valid votes | 34,034 | 99.42 | +0.61 | |||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 200 | 0.58 | -0.61 | |||||
Turnout | 34,234 | 40.22 | -15.94 | |||||
Eligible voters | 82,877 | |||||||
New Democratic hold | Swing | |||||||
Source: Elections Ontario [17] |
2018 Ontario general election : Hamilton Mountain | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Monique Taylor | 24,406 | 54.58 | +7.68 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Esther Pauls | 12,891 | 24.83 | +6.90 | ||||
Liberal | Damin Starr | 4,134 | 9.24 | −20.33 | ||||
Green | Dave Urquhart | 2,300 | 5.14 | +0.97 | ||||
Libertarian | Kristofer Maves | 533 | 1.19 | +0.42 | ||||
None of the Above | Scott Patrick Miller | 453 | 1.01 | |||||
Total valid votes | 44,717 | 98.81 | +0.43 | |||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 538 | 1.19 | -0.43 | |||||
Turnout | 45,255 | 56.16 | +3.31 | |||||
Eligible voters | 80,578 | |||||||
New Democratic hold | Swing | |||||||
Source: Elections Ontario [18] |
2014 Ontario general election : Hamilton Mountain | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Monique Taylor | 23,006 | 46.90 | +1.74 | ||||
Liberal | Javid Mirza | 14,508 | 29.57 | -2.81 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Albert Marshall | 8,795 | 17.93 | -1.11 | ||||
Green | Greg Lenko | 2,047 | 4.17 | +2.52 | ||||
Libertarian | Hans Wienhold | 379 | 0.77 | +0.28 | ||||
Freedom | Brian Goodwin | 320 | 0.65 | +0.37 | ||||
Total valid votes | 49,055 | 98.38 | -1.16 | |||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 810 | 1.62 | +1.16 | |||||
Turnout | 49,865 | 52.85 | +2.40 | |||||
Eligible voters | 94,360 | |||||||
New Democratic hold | Swing | +2.28 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario [19] |
2011 Ontario general election : Hamilton Mountain | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
New Democratic | Monique Taylor | 20,492 | 45.16 | +11.68 | ||||
Liberal | Sophia Aggelonitis | 14,694 | 32.38 | -4.83 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Geordie Elms | 8,641 | 19.04 | -4.54 | ||||
Green | Tony Morris | 748 | 1.65 | -3.05 | ||||
Family Coalition | Jim Enos | 450 | 0.99 | |||||
Libertarian | Hans Wienhold | 222 | 0.49 | |||||
Freedom | Brian Goodwin | 126 | 0.28 | -0.77 | ||||
Total valid votes | 45,373 | 99.54 | ||||||
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 208 | 0.46 | ||||||
Turnout | 45,581 | 50.45 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 90,355 | |||||||
New Democratic gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.26 | ||||||
Source: Elections Ontario [20] |
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