Yasmin Ratansi
Member of Parliament for Don Valley East
Incumbent
Assumed office  2004
Preceded by	David Collenette
Born	January 4, 1951 (1951-01-04) (age 58) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	single
Residence	Toronto
Profession	Accountant, community activist, management consultant
Religion	Ismaili

Yasmin Ratansi (born January 4, 1951) is a Canadian politician, who represents the riding of Don Valley East in the Canadian House of Commons. She is a member of the Liberal Party. Ratansi is an Ismaili, and was the first Muslim woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons.

Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, before being elected to the House, Ratansi worked as a management consultant. She is a Certified General Accountant, a member of the Certified General Accountants of Ontario, and a fellow (FCGA) of the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada. In 2009, Ratansi was bestowed with the John Leslie Award by CGA Canada, given in recognition of CGAs "who have achieved a high and favourable profile in the Canadian community." ^[1]

Ratansi was the federal Liberal candidate for Don Valley East in the 1988 federal election, and came within a narrow margin of defeating Conservative incumbent Alan Redway. She served on the party's federal campaign committee in 1992 and was treasurer of the party's Ontario wing from 1993 to 1997.

During the 39th parliament, Ratansi was elected the chair of the standing committee on the status of Women. Furthermore, she was elected vice-chair of the standing committee on liaison. Prior to this she served as the Official Opposition's Critic for National Revenue. Upon the election of Stéphane Dion as the leader of the Liberal party, she was given the responsibility of becoming a member of the opposition committee, "Canada and the World". After Michael Ignatieff became leader of the Liberal Party Yasmin was appointed as opposition critic for the Canada Revenue Agency.

Ratansi was re-elected in the 2008 federal election.

[edit] Electoral record

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yasmin Ratansi		%
	New Democrat	Mary Trapani Hynes		%
	Conservative	Eugene McDermott		%
	Green	Wayne Clements		%
	Christian Heritage	Alex Kovalenko		%
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout				%

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yasmin Ratansi	23,441	54.0%
	Conservative	Eugene McDermott	12,661	29.2%
	New Democratic Party	Richard Alan Hennick	5,597	12.9%
	Green	Wayne Clements	1,714	3.9%
Total valid votes			43,413	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			201	0

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Yasmin Ratansi	21,864
	Conservative	David Johnson	11,206
	New Democratic Party	Valerie Mah	5,287
	Green	Dan King	1,172
	Christian Heritage	Ryan Kidd	351
	Communist	Christopher Black	149

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Alan Redway	18,719
	Liberal	Yasmin Ratansi	15,881
	New Democrat	Brant Loper	6,310
	Libertarian	Mark Meschino	538
	Independent	David Smith	271
	Communist	Maria Kontopidis	155

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Yasmin Ratansi
• Parliament of Canada biography