Jill Andrew

Since 2018, I have had the distinct honor and privilege of serving with Joel as his fellow MPP colleague and friend in the Ontario Legislature. I have visited Joel in his Ottawa Centre community and witnessed his dedication championing eating disorders awareness, intervention, and prevention. I have watched Joel  build intentional and meaningful relationships with prospective candidates, with BIPOC community members working towards dismantling systemic racism, with members of our 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, health care workers, students, people with disabilities, and with survivors of gender-based violence like me and many others. I have sat in community basements with Joel as we listened to and supported community tackling manifestations of environmental racism, housing, and transit inequities.

Joel rarely speaks from a script in the legislature and it is one of his many gifts. He is an exquisite orator with a rigorous knowledge of public policy but most significant is Joel’s humanity and his way of speaking from the heart unapologetically and on behalf of his community. 

What I have consistently seen Joel demonstrate is a rare ethics of care in both community and the Ontario legislature.  I have no doubt that Joel will bring the same tenacity he has brought to the Ontario legislature to the House of Commons our nation’s stage. In a time of great political apathy we desperately need leaders who show up with courage and humility, who can celebrate wins while learning from criticisms, who are organizers, who put humanity before politics, and who we can count on and trust. Joel gives me hope.

Dr. Jill Andrew, PhD, Member of Provincial Parliament Toronto-St. Paul’s (2018 - ), ONDP Culture, Heritage, and Women’s Social & Economic Opportunities Critic;  Previous child and youth worker, student equity and human rights advisor, teacher, and columnist

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