16 Facts About Sam Oosterhoff

Sam Oosterhoff is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and was first elected at the age of 19 in a November 2016 byelection, the youngest Ontario MPP to ever be elected.

Sam Oosterhoff attended the local schools there and was residing there still with his parents at the time of the byelection.

Sam Oosterhoff's paternal grandfather, Richard Jacob "Jake" Oosterhoff, was born in Laaghalerveen in Drenthe, Netherlands.

Sam Oosterhoff came to Canada in 1952, where his parents where farming.

Former MP and current president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Rick Dykstra was the favoured candidate by both the party establishment and PC leader Patrick Brown, but Sam Oosterhoff had more local support, including that of his church.

On November 17,2016, Sam Oosterhoff defeated New Democratic challenger Mike Thomas by 9,528 votes.

Bill 28 made it easier for same-sex couples to become legal parents, and Oosterhoff had previously voiced objections to the bill saying he "definitely would not have supported it" and that it was "disrespectful to mothers and fathers".

Brown said the delay was so that Sam Oosterhoff could organize a celebration party for his family and supporters.

Sam Oosterhoff picked up 24,361 of the vote in the 2018 Ontario general election, defeating NDP candidate Curtis Fric.

On June 29,2018, Sam Oosterhoff was appointed to the role of Parliamentary Assistant to Lisa Thompson, the Minister of Education.

Sam Oosterhoff was widely criticized on April 20,2018, for his televised rendition of African-American spiritual 'Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen' given his socially conservative views and trouble-free middle class upbringing.

On October 31,2018, Halloween, Sam Oosterhoff celebrated the passing of the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act with a rendition of "Monster Mash" at Queen's Park.

In May 2019, Sam Oosterhoff participated in an anti-abortion rally at Queen's Park hosted by March for Life, where he made a stage appearance.

In October 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Sam Oosterhoff took group photos with about forty people in a banquet hall, none of whom were wearing masks or social distancing, which was contrary to provincial public health measures.

Sam Oosterhoff deleted the photos and apologized, saying that he should have worn a mask and that except for the photograph, the group had otherwise distanced.

On June 6,2024, Sam Oosterhoff took office as the Associate Minister of Energy-Intensive Industries.