Ratna Omidvar

The Honourable Ratna Omidvar CM, OOnt


Senator from Ontario
Incumbent
Assumed office March 18, 2016
Nominated by	Justin Trudeau
Appointed by	David Johnston
Personal details
Born	(1949-06-11) June 11, 1949 Punjab, India
Political party	Non-affiliated

Ratna Omidvar CM OOnt, (born June 11, 1949)^[1] is a Canadian politician and academic, who was named to the Senate of Canada to represent Ontario on March 18, 2016.^[2]

Originally from Amritsar, India, she was educated at the University of Delhi.^[3] Later moving to Canada, she became executive director of the Maytree Foundation, a charitable organization to combat poverty in Canada before being named as head of Ryerson University's Global Diversity Exchange in 2014.^[3]

References

↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ratna-omidvar-independent-senator-1.3498050
↑ "Trudeau to appoint seven new senators". The Globe and Mail, March 18, 2016.
1 2 "A fighter for immigration, inclusion and diversity". The Globe and Mail, April 17, 2015.

Current members of the Senate of Canada

Presiding officers: Speaker: George Furey • Speaker pro tempore: Nicole Eaton

AB	Black McCoy Mitchell Tannas Tardif Unger

BC	Campbell Jaffer Greene Martin Neufeld Woo

MB	Bovey Gagné McPhedran Plett Sinclair

NB	Cormier Day Hartling Lovelace Nicholas McIntyre Mockler Poirier Ringuette Stewart-Olsen Wallace

NL	Baker Doyle Furey Marshall Manning Wells

NS	Bernard Cordy Cowan Greene MacDonald McInnis Mercer Moore Ogilvie

ON	Ataullahjan Beyak Boniface Cools Dean Eaton Eggleton Enverga Frum Harder Kenny Lankin Marwah Meredith Moncion Munson Nancy Ruth Ngo Oh Omidvar Pate Runciman Wetston White

PE	Downe Duffy Griffin Hubley

QC	Bellemare Boisvenu Brazeau Carignan Dagenais Dawson Demers Dupuis Forest Fraser Gold Housakos Joyal Maltais Massicotte Mégie Petitclerc Pratte Saint-Germain Seidman Smith Verner Watt

SK	Andreychuk Batters Dyck Merchant Tkachuk Wallin

Territories	NT Sibbeston NU Patterson YT Lang

Conservative (C) Independent (Ind.) or Not affiliated (N/A) Independent Liberal (Ind. L)

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