By Pepper Parr
August 31, 2014
BURLINGTON, ON
A Fundraiser for the Judy LaMarsh Fund honouring the contributions of four great women in the advancement of women in Canadian politics will take place at the Holiday Inn on the South Service Road on September 6, 2014
Cost: $75 regular, $50 for Laurier/Victory Club members, and students. Tickets can be purchased on-line at www.liberal.ca/
The Honourable Paddy Torsney, Permanent Observer to the United Nations for the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Permanent Observer to the United Nations for the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Permanent Observer to the United Nations for the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
What is remarkable about the event is the invited guests:
The Honourable Paddy Torsney; Member of Parliament, Burlington, 1993-2006
The Honourable Bonnie Brown; Member of Parliament, Oakville, 1993-2008
The Honourable Senator Betty Kennedy; Senator, Ontario, 2000-2001
The Honourable Beth Phinney; Member of Parliament, Hamilton Mountain, 1988-2005
The Hon. Dr. Carolyn Bennett, MP for St. Paul’s Toronto will be speaking.
This event is the 20th that Paddy Torsney has sponsored in Burlington. Torsney was the woman that gave federal Liberal candidate Karina Gould the political bug.
For Torsney it was all about breaking barriers and paving the political path for women in Halton, Hamilton and across Canada. After losing the 2006 election to Mike Wallace Paddy Torsney worked as a lobbyist in Toronto and Ottawa and then accepted an appointment as the Permanent Observer to the United Nations for the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Torsney is also a member of the Privy Council.
