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2019-01-01 |
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| Name | Niki Ashton |
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Thompson, Manitoba , Canada |
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September 09, 1982
(41 years)
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| Contributor | User 13 |
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| Info | Niki Christina Ashton, B.A., M.A. is the New Democratic Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada.
A resident of Thompson, Manitoba and an instructor at University College of the North, she is the daughter of Manitoba provincial NDP cabinet minister Steve Ashton.
Niki Ashton was born in Thompson and attended École Riverside School and R.D. Parker Collegiate high school. She later attended the Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong. She has B.A on Global Political Economics from the University of Manitoba, and a M.A on International Relations from Carleton University.
Later, she was a coordinator and promoter of volunteering at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. At the event, she assisted the Chinese team.
She has studied human rights in Canada and was awarded the Ahmed Ali Hashi Human Rights Scholarship for her work.
In 2005, she defeated incumbent NDP Member of Parliament Bev Desjarlais for the New Democratic Party nomination due, in part, to the same-sex marriage issue after Desjarlais broke party ranks to vote against the Civil Marriage Act. Desjarlais subsequently quit the party and sat as an independent for the remainder of her term; she ran against Ashton as an independent in the election in Churchill in the 2006 Canadian federal election.
Some of Ashton's major themes in her campaign were getting federal funding for the University College of the North, as well as getting a federal government northern development agreement.
Although the labour unions in Thompson endorsed Ashton, the NDP vote nevertheless split between Ashton and Desjarlais, and the riding was won by Liberal Party candidate Tina Keeper. Ashton defeated Keeper in the 2008 election to regain the riding for the NDP.
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