MPP Sophie Kiwala, Kingston and the Islands

God, we thank you for MPP Sophie Kiwala in her service to our province, her constituency and community. Grant her wisdom and discernment to help meet the needs of our growing and ever-changing province. Allow her to see others through your eyes and base her decisions accordingly. Keep Ms. Kiwala and her family safe and healthy.  In Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.

Sophie Kiwala is the Member of Provincial Parliament for Kingston and the Islands. Born and raised in Reddendale, Kingston, she returned to live in the same area upon her late mother’s cancer diagnosis in 1998. She has raised three daughters, Jennifer, Linnaea and Hélène, and has a grandson, George.

In addition to her legislative duties, Sophie is a member of the Rural Affairs Caucus, the Francophone Caucus, l’Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie, the Women’s Caucus, the Great Lakes Legislative Caucus and the Lung Health Caucus.

Sophie’s first private members’ motion, which called on the Ontario Legislature to support the National Aboriginal Organizations' call on the federal government for a national public inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls was passed unanimously on Oct. 23, 2014.

Prior to her political career, Sophie spent seventeen years working in retail management and as an entrepreneur in Toronto. Sophie also spent five years living in Turkey and France, while studying English literature and French at Athabasca University part-time. While in Turkey, she volunteered for an ex-patriot women’s group to raise funds to help build Turkey’s first women’s shelter.