By Pepper Parr
November 3rd, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
We first saw Andrea Grebenc when she ran as a school board trustee. She was elected in 2014 and again in 2018.
Grebenc had a very solid working relationship with the then Director of Education Stuart Miller
As Chair (2018-2021) Grebenc and her trustees steered the board through the pandemic during which she pressed the Minister of Education to do a better job of ensuring the school boards had the tools they needed to cope with a situation the country had not seen in more than 100 years.
She became the Go To Girl for the media.
An opportunity to run for provincial office appeared and Grebenc ran for the Liberal Party nomination. She didn’t win that race; the candidate that did lost the election.
She ran for Regional Chair in 2022 and got 20,000 votes – a surprising number for a candidate with little in the way of Regional profile.
The positive part of her campaign was that she was frequently the only candidate willing to debate Gary Carr who had been Regional Chair for more than a decade.
Andrea Grebenc: Serving as HDSB Chair during the pandemic
Grebenc has been recognized as a Burlington community supporter and honoured as a Community Champion by SB Partners Chartered Accountants (2024)
She currently serves on Burlington’s Integrated Transportation Advisory Committee (ITAC) and Appleby Line Street Festival organizing committee
Initiated and provided logistics for (80+ member group) Masks for COVID Burlington to support local Long Term Care facilities’ staff and resident safety in May 2020
She served on the Mayor’s COVID Taskforce.
Entrepreneur and business owner 20+ years Grebenc has been an instructor at McMaster University for 20+ years in the Web Design and Development Program
Three children, two who are recent graduates and one still in the public education system; her husband is a cyber security specialist at the University of Toronto
Andrea Grebenc is now seeking the Ontario Liberal Party nomination for Burlington.
Grebenc graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University (Hons) and has an Adult Education certificate earned at Conestoga College. She has a Certified in Cybersecurity designation – ISC2.
Andrea Grebenc is now seeking the Ontario Liberal Party nomination for Burlington.
Why? “We need changes.”
More on what she wants to see done and how she would get started in a follow-up article.
Email: contact@andrea4burlington.ca 905-510-4847
I was impressed with her sober and candid approach as a school trustee to the high school closure debate some years ago now. I was also impressed with her time as chair of the school board and her educational and private enterprise accomplishments.
She would be a welcome and needed change in party affiliation in Burlington in the next election that can’t come soon enough in Ontario in my opinion. I hope she gains the party’s nomination as their candidate and if I can assist in some small way in her election I will. The era of Doug Ford must end. He takes our province further down the road to have-not status and embarrassment every day with his next stupid idea. I look forward to the era of Bonnie Crombie wherever it may take us. It can’t be worse than Ford’s. FYI, I am not a member of any party and don’t plan on changing that.