Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett has introduced that she won’t stand for re-election as a member of Parliament.
Bennett stated she met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to let him know, and added that serving her Toronto-St. Paul’s constituents has been the “best job.”
The news got here as Bennett introduced authorities funding for a 988 suicide disaster hotline in Toronto on Monday.
The longtime Liberal was first elected to the House of Commons in 1997 after working as a household doctor and an affiliate professor on the University of Toronto.
Before her present function, she served because the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations and the minister of Indigenous and northern affairs.
She was additionally a minister of state for public well being below former prime minister Paul Martin.
