Carolyn Bennett to visit Simcoe Grey

Carolyn Bennett, M.P. St. Paul's Toronto to address residents with Simcoe Grey Liberal Candidate Alex Smardenka
Join Carolyn Bennett and Simcoe Grey Liberal Candidate Alex Smardenka at Barrie Hill Farms Tuesday April 26   
Simcoe Grey Liberal Candidate Alex Smardenka today announced that Toronto St Pauls Toronto Centre M.P. the Hon. Dr.Carolyn Bennett will join him at a Liberal campaign rally hosted by Barrie Hill Farms at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
“Dr. Bennett is a respected political veteran who has developed a unique overview of the Canadian health care system professionally and from inside Parliament since 1997.  She is a successful campaigner and election winner,” said Alex Smardenka. “I am very pleased that she will visit our riding and hear the concerns of the residents of Simcoe Grey.”
“As a respected advisor to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, Dr.Bennett has great influence on party issues. Health care includes healthy farms and healthy local food which is why I look forward to discussing her views on our main issues on Tuesday“ said Mr. Smardenka.
Dr. Bennett plans to meet with campaign volunteers at Barrie Hill Farms at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Barrie Hill Farms is owned by Morris Gervais. The  Gervais family has hosted major Liberal campaign rallies for former Prime Ministers the Right Hon Paul Martin and Jean Chretien in past federal elections.
Currently the Gervais family supports of the Liberal National Food Policy as promotes rural Canada, healthy farms, healthy local food and a healthy country... all concerns and initiatives of area farmers. 
 Everyone is welcome to attend.
Carolyn Bennett- Alex Smardenka  Agenda Tuesday April 26, 2011.
3:00 pm. Arrives at Barrie Hill Farms Barrie
3:10 p.m. Joint press conference  
3:30 p.m. Carolyn Bennett to meet volunteers  and Liberal campaign team tio discuss Health Care and other issues of concern to area residents
4:00 p.m. M.P. Bennett leaves
Carolyn Bennett Biography
The Honourable, Dr. Carolyn Bennett, PC, MP, was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1997 general election and was re-elected in 2000 and 2004 representing the electoral district of St. Paul’s. In December 2003 in the wake of the SARS outbreak, Prime Minister Paul Martin appointed  Carolyn as the first ever Minister of State (Public Health). In her two years as Minister, she set up the Public Health Agency of Canada, appointed the first Chief Public Health Officer for Canada and established the Public Health Network which enabled all provinces and territories to work with the Federal Government on protecting the health of Canadians.
Dr. Bennett served as Chair of the Standing Joint Committee on the Library of Parliament, the sub-Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities (Human Resources Development Committee) and the Canada-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group. Dr. Bennett also served on the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, and the Standing Committee on Health. She was also a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and was Chair of the Liberal Women’s Caucus.
She is now the Democratic Renewal critic for the Official Opposition.
Prior to her election, Dr. Bennett was a family physician and a founding partner of Bedford Medical Associates in downtown Toronto. She was President of the Medical Staff Association of Women’s College Hospital and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bennett served on the Boards of Havergal College, Women’s College Hospital, the Ontario Medical Association, and the Medico-Legal Society of Toronto.
In 1986, Dr. Bennett received the Royal Life Saving Society Service Cross — a Commonwealth award recognizing her more than twenty years of distinguished service. In 2002, she was the recipient of the coveted EVE Award for contributing to the advancement of women in politics and in 2003 received the first ever CAMIMH Mental Health Champion Award. Bennett is also author of “Kill or Cure? How Canadians Can Remake their Health Care System,” published in October 2000.
Dr. Bennett obtained her degree in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1974, and received her certification in Family Medicine in 1976. She and her husband, Canadian film producer Peter O’Brian, have two sons.