26 Facts About Laura Albanese

Laura Albanese Politi was born on September 11,1957 and is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.

Laura Albanese served as a cabinet minister in the government of Kathleen Wynne.

Laura Albanese settled in Canada in 1981 and has lived in York South-Weston ever since with her husband, artist Germinio Pio Politi.

Laura Albanese worked in Italian language programming at OMNI TV in a number of capacities.

Laura Albanese was featured as Co-Anchor of OMNI News: Italian Edition, a one-hour daily Italian language newscast.

Sip launched a lawsuit against the Liberal party but Laura Albanese remained as the Liberal candidate.

Laura Albanese narrowly lost to Paul Ferreira of the New Democratic Party by 358 votes.

Eight months later Laura Albanese was in a rematch with Ferreira in the 2007 provincial election.

Laura Albanese was appointed parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Culture, Aileen Carroll.

Laura Albanese introduced a Private Members Bill to eliminate the deduction of Old Age Security from workers compensation benefits.

In February 2013, Laura Albanese was appointed PA to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Michael Chan, where she represented the Minister and promoted the ministry at various events, conferences and forums.

In 2013, when Kathleen Wynne took over as Premier, Laura Albanese was appointed as Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier and made Deputy Government Whip.

At Finance, Laura Albanese led the five-year review of the Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires Act, 1994 which included an extensive in-person consultation tour across Ontario, and prepared a report outlining fifteen different recommendations, which were adopted and shaped amendments to the Act and related regulations.

Later, Laura Albanese led a series of roundtables and meetings to consult with experts and industry stakeholders to tackle tax avoidance schemes and practices.

Laura Albanese had input in ways to better address the underground economy in Ontario across sectors.

Laura Albanese held yearly pre-budget consultation town halls across the province and in her local riding of York South-Weston.

In November 2015, Laura Albanese introduced the Albanian Heritage Month Act as a Private Members' Bill.

On June 13,2016, Laura Albanese was appointed to cabinet as the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

Laura Albanese stabilized the Ontario Immigration Nominee Program by securing an increase in the allocation of nominees from the Federal government, attaining a permanent increase in staffing and implementing an e-filing application system.

Laura Albanese secured increased investment for the Ontario Bridge Training Program.

Laura Albanese represented Ontario as a member of the Federal Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Irregular Migration, formed to respond to the irregular border crossings by asylum seekers.

Laura Albanese published a progress report in 2016 on Ontario's Immigration Strategy.

Laura Albanese was eventually successful in winning a UP Express stop in Weston.

Laura Albanese again pushed for a lower price for the community and eventually, the prices were lowered.

On July 23,2016, Laura Albanese met with representatives of the MDCA, and assured them that she would advocate to the provincial agency and to the Minister of Transportation to investigate less polluting alternatives to fossil fuels.

Laura Albanese successfully changed the decision to build the 18-megawatt gas plant, and Metrolinx, together with Toronto Hydro, are building a battery energy storage system for backup power to the Eglinton LRT instead.