Vijay Thanigasalam (born March 8, 1989) is a Sri Lankan born Canadian politician who has served as the Ontario associate minister of mental health and addictions since March 19, 2025. Thanigasalam sits as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Scarborough—Rouge Park, representing the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party. Thanigasalam was elected in 2018 and has been in the provincial cabinet since 2023, first as the associate minister of transportation, then as associate minister of housing, before moving to the Ministry of Health as the associate minister of mental health and addictions. He is the first Tamil-Canadian to sit in the provincial cabinet in Ontario.
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8 March 1989 (age 36) Sri Lanka
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