Sharon Burey
{{Short description|Canadian senator}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2022}}
{{ Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = The Honourable
| name = Sharon Burey
| office1 = Senator for Ontario
| termstart1 = November 21, 2022
| nominator1 = Justin Trudeau
| appointed1 = Mary Simon
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|year = 1957|month = 12|day = 4}}
| birth_place = Jamaica
}}
Sharon Burey (born December 4, 1957) is a Canadian senator and pediatrician from Ontario. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada on November 21, 2022, on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.{{Cite news |date=2022-11-21 |title=PM Trudeau appoints 3 new senators for Ontario |work=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sharon-burey-rebecca-patterson-andrew-cardozo-senator-appointments-1.6659140?cmp=rss |access-date=2022-11-23}}
Burey was born in Jamaica and moved to Canada in 1976. In addition to her work as a pediatrician, Burey is a health policy advocate, having served on the executive council of the Pediatricians Alliance of Ontario and the health policy committee of the Ontario Medical Association. She was the first woman of colour to become president of the Pediatricians Alliance of Ontario.
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Category:Canadian senators from Ontario
Category:Independent Canadian senators
Category:Women members of the Senate of Canada
Category:21st-century Canadian women politicians
Category:Black Canadian politicians
Category:Jamaican emigrants to Canada
Category:Canadian pediatricians
Category:21st-century members of the Senate of Canada
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