Work is health ! Hazel McCallion, 101, in office since 2017, is therefore renewed in her functions for three additional years, until 2025. The Canadian Minister of Transport salutes “her extensive experience (…), the fact that she brings extensive expertise and knowledge“. Greater Toronto’s Pearson airport, which she will continue to oversee, is the largest in Canada. It saw 50 million passengers pass through it a year, before the pandemic.
Congratulations Hazel McCallion on your reappointment to the Greater Toronto Airports Authority Board of Directors!https://t.co/l8wBw7ky2E pic.twitter.com/E8iSUyYDau
— Omar Alghabra (@OmarAlghabra) April 6, 2022
Hazel McCallion is a true icon in Canada. His nickname ? “Hazel the hurricane“, the hurricane. A pioneer who had several lives. Very active in associations, she was first a professional hockey player, and when she put away her stick, she launched herself into politics.
For 36 years she led the city of Mississauga and its 700,000 inhabitants, a suburb of Toronto, one of the most important economic centers in the country. She won 12 successive elections there. A political science professor who wrote a book about her calls her in an interview with the Guardian of “pragmatic populist“, with “an incredible ability to take the pulse of the public“. Hazel McCallion is a tiny bit of a woman but she has a sharp tongue and a reputation for being combative, even brutal in politics. A former premier of Ontario even said of her: “She’s the only politician that scares me“.
When she opted out of running for mayor of Mississauga in 2014, Hazel was already 93 years old. But that doesn’t mean she’s retired. She then became a consultant for a promoter of residences for the elderly, adviser to the Premier of Ontario, she joined the board of directors of the airport, and she was also appointed special adviser to the University, which took advantage of”his encyclopedic knowledge of politics“. Contract that she has just renewed last month.
Former Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion gets first dose of COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/W4wuop6VRX pic.twitter.com/HNNS8TQN3n
—CP24 (@CP24) March 5, 2021
Vaccinated last year against the Covid, she seems in great shape, moves around without help and still gives a lot of interviews. On February 14, she celebrated her birthday outside, in the snow, with a pink puffer jacket on her back.uchsia. A journalist asks him his secret. His answer : “Work hard, be positive, stay independent and remember you are on earth to accomplish something“…