Monte McNaughton

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ABOUT MONTE MCNAUGHTON

Monte McNaughton served as Member of Provincial Parliament for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex from 2011 to 2023. He was Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development from 2019 to 2023. He stepped down to become Executive Vice-President of Woodbine Entertainment. He sits on a national pension fund\'s Advisory Investment Committee, is a corporate director, a board advisor to a pension and health benefits fund, and a public speaker. He founded MGM Strategies to provide strategic advice. He graduated from Westervelt Business College and completed executive programs at Ivey School of Business at Western University. He learned the value of hard work in his family’s Home Hardware Building Centre in Newbury, Ontario. McNaughton served as Minister of Infrastructure from 20••••19. He embarked on an ambitious global market-sounding initiative, engaging with industry stakeholders to gather actionable feedback, then spearheaded cross-agency and cross-ministry reforms to enhance project delivery, optimize costs, and accelerate timelines. He expanded natural gas and broadband to rural, northern and Indigenous communities, co-led Canada’s largest subway transit expansion, overseeing the procurement and delivery of four new subway lines in the GTA, and invested to renovate Canada’s oldest concert hall, Massey Hall. In June 2019 he was named Minister of Labour. He embarked on a province-wide listening tour to open a new dialogue with labour partners that included meeting with 100 labour leaders in his first 100 days. He became the first Minister of Labour to march in the Toronto Labour Day parade, and built a new blue collar, working-class coalition with private sector labour and employers. In September 2019, he took on additional responsibilities of training and skills development to become Minister of Labour, Training, and Skills Development. In 2022, he had Immigration added. During McNaughton’s time, Ontario saw a record number of people joining skilled trades, including an historic increase in females. He kept construction sites open during the pandemic by strengthening health and safety. He brought forward groundbreaking Working for Workers Acts to empower and protect workers, recognize international credentials for newcomers, modernize employment laws and training programs to address the future of work, and help businesses recruit to fill labour shortages. He launched first-ever training programs to give people who have criminal records a second chance. McNaughton, his wife Kate and daughter Annie, live in Toronto and Mt. Brydges.