FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 2024
TORONTO, ON – Dr. Adil Shamji, MPP for Don Valley East and Ontario Liberal Party (OLP), critic for Housing, Health, and Northern & Indigenous Issues, has been officially nominated as a candidate for the next provincial election.
“Adil is an outstanding member of our Ontario Liberal team, who uses his experiences as an emergency room physician to push the conversation on healthcare, drive accountability and deliver real results for the people of Ontario. I am thrilled to have him represent Ontario’s Liberals in Don Valley East.”
— Bonnie Crombie, Leader of Ontario’s Liberals
“While we have accomplished much in the last two years, our work has only just begun. I am delighted to be working with our phenomenal Ontario Liberal team to do our part in solving the health, housing, and education crises we face. With Bonnie Crombie boldly leading our party into the future, I know that our hard work, determination, and trademark grit will serve the people of Ontario well.”
— Dr. Adil Shamji, MPP and Ontario Liberal Candidate for Don Valley East
Dr. Adil Shamji is an emergency physician who has devoted his career to helping people.
After graduating from Western University and medical school at the University of Toronto, he worked in Indigenous communities across Canada and joined the emergency department at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto’s east end.
Dr. Shamji pursued a Master’s degree in Public Policy at the University of Oxford and returned to Canada to converge medical practice with public policy. He was appointed the Medical Director for 11 homeless shelters in Toronto as part of the City’s pandemic response efforts. Besides clinical work, he is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Shamji was at the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic and opioid crisis, setting up primary care clinics that provided healthcare and addiction services to the city’s most vulnerable. Having experienced firsthand the pressures of the pandemic that revealed the inequalities within our healthcare system, Dr. Shamji has taken his advocacy to the Ontario Legislature as an elected Member of Provincial Parliament for Don Valley East.
He is the Ontario Liberal Caucus critic for Housing, Health, and Northern & Indigenous Issues, and served on the Standing Committee on Social Policy from 2022-2024. As an MPP, Dr. Shamji has proposed legislation that would restrict private payments for nurse practitioner services, unlock opportunities to build more housing, establish greater protections for temporary nursing professionals, and establish new standards for government accountability and transparency by releasing cabinet mandate letters from the Premier.
He has also been outspoken on emergency department closures, and has proven a staunch advocate of universal, publicly funded healthcare.
Dr. Shamji is committed to making government work in the best interests of everyone across Ontario, and believes that ‘all policy is health policy’.