38 Facts About Jane Philpott

Jane Philpott was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4,2015.

Jane Philpott resigned in December 2024 to take on a new role in the Ontario government.

Jane Philpott's father, The Reverend Wallace Little, was a Presbyterian minister.

Jane Philpott later earned a Master of Public Health, with a concentration in Global Health, in 2012 from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Jane Philpott served as Chief of the Department of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital from 2008 to 2014, and was concurrently Associate Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Family and Community Medicine.

Jane Philpott was the Lead Physician of the Health For All Family Health Team in Markham, Ontario.

Jane Philpott worked in Niger in West Africa from 1989 to 1998 with a faith-based non-governmental organization, where she practiced general medicine and developed a training program for village health workers.

Jane Philpott returned to Niger in 2005 with Medecins sans Frontieres during a food crisis.

Jane Philpott was the Family Medicine lead in the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration from 2008 to 2014.

Jane Philpott has advocated for Canada to give greater attention to the rights of refugees, particularly regarding healthcare.

Jane Philpott is a co-curator of TEDxStouffville, founded in 2012 with Dr Eileen Nicolle.

Jane Philpott was named the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the School of Medicine for Queen's University in early 2020.

Jane Philpott serves as the CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization.

Jane Philpott has advocated the national decriminalization of the simple possession of illicit drugs to help cope with the increasing number of overdose deaths.

In September 2020, Jane Philpott opened an Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Jane Philpott spearheaded the creation of the Dean's Action Table on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which consists of an executive and seven working groups, and launched the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Fund.

Jane Philpott initiated the creation of the Dean's Initiative for Indigenous Summer Programs and renewed focus on strengthening Queen's relationship with the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority.

Jane Philpott initiated the change to the QuARMS admissions policy, designating all 10 seats for Indigenous peoples and Black Canadians.

Jane Philpott spearheaded the planning process for the launch of a new global health institute in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Jane Philpott was critical of the Conservative government's lack of action and the returning of more than $350 million to the federal treasury in unspent funds over a three-year period, a sum that included millions for processing refugee applications and helping asylum-seekers settle into Canada.

Jane Philpott defeated the incumbent, Paul Calandra.

Jane Philpott was appointed Minister of Health in the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4,2015.

Jane Philpott is the first medical doctor to hold the post.

Jane Philpott was appointed to the following Cabinet Committees on November 4,2015.

On May 1,2016, after the new government had been in office for six months, David Akin, Parliamentary Bureau Chief of the Toronto Sun, published a rating of the Liberal Cabinet's work to date in which Jane Philpott was awarded an A+.

On May 11,2016, Jane Philpott was appointed to the "Ad Hoc Committee on Northern Alberta Wildfires", a new ad hoc Cabinet committee to coordinate federal efforts to help the thousands of Canadians affected by the wildfires that raged through Northern Alberta in May 2016.

Jane Philpott became the inaugural Minister of Indigenous Services in a cabinet shuffle on August 28,2017; she was succeeded by Ginette Petitpas Taylor at the Ministry of Health.

On March 4,2019, Jane Philpott resigned from her position in the cabinet as President of the Treasury Board, citing her inability to reconcile with the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Jane Philpott told the Canadian Press that the people of Canada still "deserve an apology" from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the SNC-Lavalin affair and issued a statement saying that she had taken a stand based on principle because she believes her constituents wanted her to uphold the highest ethical standard and that she welcomed the "validation" in the ethics commissioner's report.

Jane Philpott noted with regret that Dion was not granted "unfettered access to all information that could be relevant to the exercise" of his mandate, further stating that this is essential to ensure transparency and accountability for public office holders as it relates to conflicts of interest.

On September 3,2019, Jane Philpott was the only Independent candidate among the 25 candidates endorsed for the 2019 election by the GreenPAC environmental organization founded in 2014 with the goal to help recruit, elect, and support environmental leadership in Canadian politics.

Jane Philpott ran for re-election in the 2019 federal election as an Independent but lost.

In February 2020, Jane Philpott was appointed dean of the Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences and director of the Queen's School of Medicine, and CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization.

In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Jane Philpott called for a national inquiry into long-term care facilities after a Canadian Armed Forces report on poor conditions in five Ontario homes that necessitated the deployment of military health personnel.

In spring 2024, Jane Philpott released a book called Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada.

In October 2024, Jane Philpott was appointed by the Ontario provincial government of Doug Ford to take up a chair position in December of a task force on connecting Ontarians to primary-care doctors within five years.

Jane Philpott served as the chief of family medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital from 2008 to 2014.

Jane Philpott is involved as a song leader at the Community Mennonite Church, and Pep Jane Philpott works as a CBC Radio journalist.