Vijay Thanigasalam

Vijay Thanigasalam
Ontario Associate Minister of Housing
Assumed office
June 6, 2024
PremierDoug Ford
Preceded byRob Flack
Ontario Associate Minister of Transportation
In office
September 22, 2023 – June 6, 2024
PremierDoug Ford
Preceded byTodd McCarthy
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure
In office
June 29, 2022 – September 22, 2023
MinisterKinga Surma
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Transportation
In office
June 26, 2019 – June 1, 2022
MinisterCaroline Mulroney
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament
for Scarborough—Rouge Park
Assumed office
June 7, 2018
Preceded byRiding established
Personal details
Born (1989-03-08) March 8, 1989 (age 35)
Jaffna
Political partyProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Residence(s)Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario
Alma materOntario Tech

Vijay Thanigasalam MPP is a Canadian politician who has been the Ontario associate minister of housing since 2024 and the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Scarborough—Rouge Park since 2018, representing the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. He was previously the Ontario associate minister of transportation. Thanigasalam is the first Tamil-Canadian to sit in the provincial cabinet in Ontario.