Deb matthews minister of health biography

Canadian politician

Deborah Drake Matthews is a former Canadian politician who served as the 10th deputy premier of Ontario from 2013 to 2018.

A member of the Liberal Party, Matthews was the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for London North Centre from 2003 to 2018, and was a cabinet minister from 2008 to 2018 in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne.

Deb matthews minister of health biography

Early life and education

Her father is Donald Jeune Matthews, former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and her sister is Shelley Peterson, the wife of former Ontario Premier David Peterson.^[1]

She graduated from St.

George's Public School and A.B. Lucas Secondary School. She studied at the University of Western Ontario where she earned a PhD in social demography. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled the "Consequences of immigrant concentration in Canada, 2001–2051."^[2]

Political career

2003 election

In the 2003 election, Matthews defeated