Juanita Nathan
- Career
- Chair and York Region District School Board (YRDSB) trustee; city councillor for Markham City Council from November 15, 2022 to May 14, 2025.
- Political Experience
- Ran for her party's nomination in the 2017 Markham—Thornhill federal by-election; Elected Member of Parliament for Pickering—Brooklin in the 2025 Canadian federal election.
- Notable
- Of Tamil Canadian heritage.
Where Juanita falls on key policy spectrums
Your Money
People & Society
How We're Governed
Land & Community
Total votes cast: 71,232
How does Juanita Nathan's voting record line up with your values?
Mr. Speaker, May 18 is not just a date on a calendar. For Tamil Canadians, it is a wound that has never fully healed. Seventeen years ago, the Sri Lankan civil war ended in a final offensive that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Tamil civilians in a matter of weeks. Hundreds of thousands were displaced. The wounds, psychological, familial and cultural, persist to this day. As someone
Mr. Speaker, the seniors in our country are the very people who built the communities we live in today, who raised families, strengthened our economy and shaped the Canada we are so proud of. They deserve to age with dignity, security and peace of mind. In Pickering—Brooklin, our seniors are concerned about affordability and ensuring they receive the benefits they rely on. Can the secretary of
Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. Mr. Janeiro, I'll go to you first. Researchers show that caregiving responsibilities often follow women across generations—from caring for children to caring for aging parents. How does the “sandwich generation” effect compound pension gaps and retirement insecurity for women who never had a sustained period of full
WAGE funded your organization specifically to examine systemic changes. Based on the work, is the problem of financial vulnerability among senior women best understood as a failure of individual programs or as a product of the structural systems, like labour markets, tax policies or housing markets, that were never designed with these women in mind? What does your answer imply for where the
Can you suggest any structural reforms that could interrupt this?
For indigenous senior women, financial vulnerability often intersects with colonial legacies, interrupted education, exclusion from pension systems, displacement from land and communities, and intergenerational trauma. How should federal anti-poverty and anti-abuse frameworks be specifically redesigned to be responsive to these histories rather than applying a one-size-fits-all senior women lens?
That's very good. Thank you so much for that. I have one more question. The One Canadian Economy Act aims to improve labour mobility across provinces. For caregivers who relocate to support a family member, what portability gaps exist in caregiver benefits and workplace protection and how should federal policy address these as labour mobility increases?