Dipika Damerla

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Dipika Damerla
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Mississauga City Councillor
Assumed office
December 3, 2018[1]
Preceded byNando Iannica
ConstituencyWard 7 (Cooksville)
Minister of Seniors Affairs
In office
June 13, 2016 – June 28, 2018
PremierKathleen Wynne
Preceded byMario Sergio
Succeeded byRaymond Cho
Associate Minister for Long-Term Care and Wellness
In office
June 24, 2014 – June 13, 2016
PremierKathleen Wynne
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
for Mississauga East—Cooksville
In office
October 6, 2011 – June 7, 2018
Preceded byPeter Fonseca
Succeeded byKaleed Rasheed
Personal details
BornHyderabad, Telangana, India
Political partyIndependent[lower-alpha 1]
Other political
affiliations		Liberal
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Websitewww.dipikadamerla.ca

Dipika Damerla is a Canadian politician in Mississauga, Ontario. She is the current Mississauga City Councillor for Ward 7, the neighbourhood of Cooksville, since her swearing-in on December 3, 2018.[1][2] Previously, Damerla was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Mississauga East—Cooksville from 2011 to 2018. She served as Minister of Seniors Affairs in the Cabinet of Premier Kathleen Wynne.

Background[edit]

Damerla was born in a Telugu-speaking family in Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh (present day Telangana), India. After emigrating to Canada she earned her MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She worked in corporate banking at the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Nova Scotia. Prior to her first election to the Ontario Legislature she was Senior Policy Advisor to Ontario's Minister of Economic Development and Trade. She lives in Mississauga with her daughter, Sharmeila.[3]

Provincial politics[edit]

Damerla is a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. She won a tough 2011 nomination race to be the Liberal candidate for Mississauga East—Cooksville, beating Nancy Fonseca (the sister of previous Mississauga East—Cooksville MPP Peter Fonseca).[4] She beat her nearest rival, Progressive Conservative Zoran Churchin by 4,238 votes in the 2011 provincial election.[5][6]

In November 2011, she was appointed as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure.[7] In April 2012, Damerla introduced a resolution to reform the 1998 Condominium Act. Her resolution would help facilitate disputes between condominium boards and owners. She said that the current system is long and costly. She said, "the act provided a dispute resolution process which was right for that time and the place. However, 14 years later, times have changed. Our province is a very different place now." The resolution passed first reading in June.[8]

She was re-elected in the 2014 provincial election.[9]

Cabinet Minister[edit]

In June 2014, Damerla was appointed as an Associate Minister (minister without portfolio) for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care focusing on long-term care.[10] She then succeeded Mario Sergio as Minister responsible for Seniors Affairs, another minister without portfolio position, in a June 13, 2016 cabinet shuffle.

Damerla was appointed Minister of Seniors Affairs, leading a new standalone ministry created from the former Ontario Seniors' Secretariat, on January 12, 2017.[11]

In the 2018 provincial election, Damerla was defeated in Mississauga East—Cooksville by Progressive Conservative candidate Kaleed Rasheed.[12]

Municipal politics[edit]

Damerla registered on July 19, 2018 to run as a candidate to replace retiring Ward 7 Mississauga City Councillor Nando Iannica in the 2018 Mississauga municipal election.[13] Damerla was elected with a large margin, the first new councillor for Ward 7 in over 30 years.[2] On December 12, 2018, she was one of 10 members of city council that voted to ban physical cannabis retail shops in Mississauga.[14]

Electoral record[edit]

Municipal[edit]

Mississauga municipal election, 2018: Ward 7[15]
Candidate Votes %
Dipika Damerla 4,566 41.25
Andrew Gassmann 1,762 15.92
Leslie Zurek-Silvestri 1,399 12.64
9 other candidates 3,341 30.19
Total 11,068 100.00

Provincial[edit]

Template:Ontario provincial election, 2018/Mississauga East—Cooksville Template:Ontario provincial election, 2014/Mississauga East—Cooksville Template:Ontario provincial election, 2011/Mississauga East—Cooksville

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Municipal politicians in Ontario run on a non-partisan basis.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "City of Mississauga Welcomes the 2018-2022 Council". City Hall Newsroom. City of Mississauga. 22 November 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clay, Chris (22 October 2018). "'Feels good to be elected again': Dipika Damerla wins Mississauga's Ward 7 council seat". The Mississauga News. Metroland Media Group. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  3. ↑ Chin, Joseph (10 January 2012). "MPP finds her calling". The Mississauga News. p. 1.
  4. ↑ Dean, Jan (15 July 2011). "Nomination fiercely contested". The Mississauga News. p. 1.
  5. ↑ Chin, Joe (7 October 2011). "Rookie wins for Grits". The Mississauga News. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Summary of Valid Ballots Cast for Each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 6 October 2011. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  7. ↑ Rosella, Louie (11 November 2011). "MPPs take on new roles". The Mississauga News. p. 1.
  8. ↑ Clay, Chris (18 June 2012). "MPP Damerla's condo dispute motion passes first reading". The Mississauga News. p. 1.
  9. ↑ "General Election by District: Mississauga East-Cooksville". Elections Ontario. June 12, 2014. Archived from the original on September 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ Richard Brennan; Robert Benzie; Rob Ferguson (24 June 2014). "Kathleen Wynne warns financial cupboard is bare". Toronto Star.
  11. ↑ "Mississauga MPP Damerla appointed to lead new seniors ministry". The Mississauga News. Metroland Media Group. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  12. ↑ Rayner, Ben (7 June 2018). "Two cabinet ministers felled in Mississauga East—Cooksville and Mississauga-Lakeshore". Toronto Star. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  13. ↑ Raza, Ali (19 July 2018). "Former Wynne cabinet minister Dipika Damerla runs for Ward 7". The Mississauga News. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  14. ↑ Raza, Ali (12 December 2018). "Mississauga council says no to cannabis shops". The Mississauga News. Metroland Media Group. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  15. ↑ Rusnov, Diana (26 October 2018). "2018 Election, Official Results" (PDF). Mississauga Votes. Office of the City Clerk, City of Mississauga. Retrieved 1 November 2018.

External links[edit]

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