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Filomena Tassi {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} is a Canadian politician who served as the Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Liberal Party, Tassi represented the riding of Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas in the House of Commons, taking office following the 2015 federal election. She served as the Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Receiver General for Canada from 2021 to 2022, as the Minister of Labour from 2019 to 2021, and as the Minister of Seniors from 2018 to 2019. She did not seek re-election in 2025.

Education and early career

Tassi is of Italian descent, from the regions of Marche and Abruzzo, and was raised Catholic.{{Cite web|url=https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/5/15/filomena-tassi-2/|title = Filomena Tassi, "Italian Heritage Month" on May 15th, 2017 | openparliament.ca}} She studied law at the University of Western Ontario, and then practised corporate law for six years. She subsequently left the legal profession and studied philosophy and religious education at the University of Waterloo, and began working as the chaplain at St. Mary Catholic Secondary School and Bishop Tonnos Catholic Secondary School, a job she held until her election to the House of Commons.[http://filomenatassi.liberal.ca/biography/ Meet Filomena Tassi], Liberal.ca.

Political career

Tassi's first run for elective office was as a candidate for the Ontario Liberal Party in the 1995 provincial election, where she finished a narrow second to NDP incumbent David Christopherson. Two decades later, she became the federal Liberal candidate in Hamilton during the 2015 federal election. Her candidacy attracted some media controversy, as she had made statements in the past suggesting that her Roman Catholic faith made her personally opposed to abortion, which seemingly put her in conflict with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's requirement that all candidates agree to vote in favour of abortion rights. Trudeau clarified that Tassi had agreed to support the legal right to abortion.Susana Mas, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-says-filomena-tassi-agreed-to-vote-pro-choice-if-elected-in-2015-1.2854248 Justin Trudeau says Filomena Tassi agreed to vote pro-choice if elected in 2015], CBC News, November 28, 2014.

Prior to entering federal politics, Tassi was a Catholic school board trustee.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/liberals-pick-up-two-hamilton-ridings-marston-defeated-1.3278333 "Liberals pick up two Hamilton ridings, Marston defeated"]. CBC Hamilton, October 19, 2015.

After previously serving as Deputy Government Whip, Tassi was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Seniors on July 18, 2018, becoming the first minister responsible for the portfolio since 2015.{{Cite news|last=Wright Allen|first=Samantha|date=July 25, 2018|title=Rodriguez, Tassi staying as government whips for now, changes expected soon|work=The Hill Times|url=https://www.hilltimes.com/2018/07/25/rodriguez-tassi-staying-government-whips-least-next-weeks/151845|access-date=August 2, 2018}} After being re-elected in 2019, Tassi was named Minister of Labour, a job she held for just under two years until she was named Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Receiver General for Canada in the cabinet shuffle held following the 2021 federal election.{{Cite web|last=Bharti|first=Bianca|date=2019-11-20|title=Justin Trudeau's cabinet: Some new faces, some old faces, and some faces in new places {{!}} National Post|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/justin-trudeau-cabinet-2019-liberals|access-date=2019-11-20|website=National Post|language=en-CA}} Tassi served in that job until August 31, 2022, when she was named Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, having requested to be moved to a portfolio with a lighter workload in order to deal with a family health matter.{{Cite news|last=Zimonjic|first=Peter|date=August 31, 2022|title=Trudeau tweaks cabinet, swapping ministers Tassi and Jaczek|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-shuffles-liberal-cabinet-1.6567811|access-date=August 31, 2022}}

Tassi did not seek re-election in the 2025 Canadian federal election.{{Cite news |date=October 17, 2024 |title="Hamilton Liberal MP Filomena Tassi won't run for re-election" |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tassi-election-1.7355058 |url-status=live |access-date=May 14, 2025 |work=CBC News}} Liberal John-Paul Danko succeeded her as Member of Parliament for Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas.{{Cite news |last=Hewitt |first=Fallon |date=2025-04-29 |title=John-Paul Danko wins Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas for Liberals |url=https://www.thespec.com/politics/federal-elections/who-won-hamilton-west-ancaster-dundas/article_6782ad0a-c3b9-502c-a337-8fe043727215.html |access-date=2025-05-14 |work=The Hamilton Spectator |language=en |issn=1189-9417}}

Electoral record

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{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2015|Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|62,279|100.0| |$221,675.78}}

{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|272|–|–}}

{{CANelec/source|Source: Elections Canada[http://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/candidates?L=e&ED=35038&EV=41&EV_TYPE=1&PC=&PROV=ON&PROVID=35&MAPID=&QID=8&PAGEID=17&TPAGEID=&PD=&STAT_CODE_ID=-1 Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, 30 September 2015][http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand/canlim&document=index&lang=e Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815061116/http://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=can&dir=cand%2Fcanlim&document=index&lang=e |date=August 15, 2015 }}}}

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References

External links

[http://filomenatassi.liberal.ca/ Official Website]
[https://pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/honourable-filomena-tassi Bio & mandate from the Prime Minister]{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=18502}}

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