Carolyn Bennett

The Honourable Dr. Carolyn Bennett has served as the Canadian Ambassador to The Kingdom of Denmark which included Greenland and the Faroe Islands since January 2024. She was elected to the House of Commons in 1997 and over her 26 years in Parliament served as Minister of State (Public Health), Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. The fight for the autonomy, vision and values of Women's College Hospital was her first adventure into political life. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and was a member of a multi-disciplinary Family Practice delivering comprehensive care. She believes now that the ‘system’ is her patient as she continues to fight for feminist principles of diversity and inclusion and fairness in Canada and the increasingly challenging world.