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About Sheref


Sheref Sabawy is the Progressive Conservative Candidate for Mississauga—Erin Mills, currently seeking re-election to be your Member of Provincial Parliament.

Elected in 2018, Sheref Sabawy successfully helped to pass a number of important pieces of legislation to build Ontario for the people.  In Mississauga, Sheref’s advocacy has helped secure:

  • $45 million in provincial funding for the South Common Community Centre and Library
  • Over 1,880 long-term care beds for Mississauga
  • The development of the Hurontario LRT (the Hazel McCallion Line)

In 2019, Sheref was called to serve as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Heritage, Sports, Tourism, and Culture Industries, helping to support this hard-hit industry during the Covid-19 pandemic.

As a local resident of Mississauga, where he and his wife Dr. Mary raised their two sons, Sheref understands the challenges facing the local community.  He has been an active member of many local groups, including: the Inter-Faith Committee of Peel, the Peel Region Inclusion & Multi-Culture Task Force, the Mississauga Post-Secondary Education Task Force, and the Canadian-Coptic Community Centre.

Outside of politics, Sheref Sabawy is a Computer Network & IT Technologies Professional with over thirty years of experience.  He has worked at some of the largest companies and financial institutions in Canada before managing his own successful consultancy business.  Sheref also taught at George Brown and Centennial Colleges as a professor of IT.

A trained professional, a loving father, a community leader, and with experience in government, Sheref Sabawy is a strong advocate for Mississauga.  This spring, Sheref Sabawy is seeking your support to get it done.

Sheref Sabawy and Doug Ford are getting it done for families in Mississauga.


Thomas Street Middle School Expansion: It’s Getting Done

In June of 2020, I joined the then Minister of Education and the local school board trustee in Mississauga to announce an expansion of Thomas Street Middle School.

It was a project that we had been pushing for for a long time.  And we were excited to finally be able to make the announcement (albeit with some social distancing in effect).

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Back to Basics in Schools: It’s Getting Done

The world has changed a lot in the past 25 years.  Everything from politics and the economy to technology and day-to-day life has been impacted.  We don’t live in the same world as we did 25 years ago. Yet, our education system has lagged behind.

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