Carol Hughes (politician)

Carol Hughes
MP
Member of Parliament
for Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing
Incumbent
Assumed office
October 14, 2008
Preceded byBrent St. Denis
Assistant Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 7, 2015
Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau
Personal details
Born (1958-11-26) November 26, 1958 (age 65)
Val Caron, Ontario
Political partyNew Democratic Party
SpouseKeith Hughes
ResidenceHanmer, Ontario[1]
ProfessionCLC Staff Representative
Websitehttps://carolhughes.ndp.ca/

Carol R. Hughes MP (born November 26, 1958) is a Canadian politician, who has represented the electoral district of Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing in the House of Commons of Canada since 2008. She is a member of the New Democratic Party.

Prior to being elected, she worked as a staff representative for the Canadian Labour Congress. She ran as the NDP's candidate in the 2004 election and the 2006 election, losing to Liberal incumbent Brent St. Denis both times.

She had told the press that she would not run in the 2008 election, but changed her mind after she stopped in Blind River for dinner on her way home from a Canadian Labour Congress meeting, and a couple she had never met approached her and encouraged her to run again.[2] She won the riding in that election, defeating St. Denis, and was re-elected in the 2011 election.[3]

Hughes endorsed Niki Ashton in the 2012 NDP leadership election,[4] and Charlie Angus in the 2017 leadership election.

Hughes has been appointed Assistant Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole for a second time; she previously held this role in the 42nd Parliament.[5]

On April 4, 2024 she announced she would not run again for office in the 45th Canadian federal election.[6]

  1. ^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  2. ^ "Hughes breaks 73 year Liberal stranglehold", Mid-North Monitor.
  3. ^ "Hughes hails NDP showing" Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine. Sault Star, May 3, 2011.
  4. ^ "Northern Ontario MP Carol Hughes Endorses Ashton for Leader". Local 2 News. January 31, 2012. Archived from the original on August 4, 2012.
  5. ^ "Speaker of the House of Commons - Carol Hughes". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  6. ^ Patterson, Mike (April 4, 2024). "Rachel Blaney Will Not Run in Next Federal Election". My Cowichan Valley Now. Retrieved April 4, 2024.