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Kirsty Duncan
Kirsty Ellen Duncan PC MP (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian politician and medical geographer from Ontario, Canada. Duncan is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Liberal Party of Canada in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North and was appointed Minister of Science, on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015. In January 2018, she also became Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities. As well Duncan won her riding,Etobicoke North in the 2019 federal election

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Career
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan was an Associate Professor of Health Studies at the University of Toronto, where she taught global environmental processes and medical geography and the former Research Director for the AIC Institute of Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management.

Kirsty served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization which won the Nobel Prize in 2007.

Minister Duncan is passionate about international affairs and supporting her constituents in Etobicoke North. Duncan sits on the board of the St. Andrew’s Society of Toronto and the Toronto Foundation for School Success.

Political Career
In 2015, She Won her first federal election, with 62% of the vote.

In November 2015, Duncan was named Minister of Science and Minister for Sports and People with Disabilities after Liberal MP Kent Hehr resigned from cabinet following sexual misconduct allegations.

[1] As Canada's Minister of Science and Sport, Duncan has made ending abuse and harassment in sport her priority since taking over the portfolio in January 2018. She wants to instituted a series of initiatives, including establishing new policy for national sports organizations, funding the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada to create an investigation unit, and setting up a toll-free confidential tipline for athletes and witnesses to call if they experience abuse. Duncan's action items include creating a code of conduct with sanctions and finding a way to prevent coaches or officials from freely moving to another province or club after allegations of abuse. Currently this action item is a work in progress.

Duncan's priority as Minister of Scienc was to "unmuzzled our scientists" Under a Liberal government, Duncan as Canada's Minister of Science was able to bring back the long-form census and chief scientific advisor.

In 2019, Kirsty Duncan won her Etobicoke North seat in west Toronto, and won against People’s Party of Canada candidate Renata Ford, widow of former Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford.

Duncan reported that the liberal government in 2018 devoted $2.8 billion to renewing Canada's federal science laboratories because they said that they understand the critical role that government researchers play in Canada's science and research community.

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Citation added "Duncan is currently an adjunct professor teaching both medical geography at the University of Toronto and global environmental processes at Royal Roads University, and served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.