Christine Hart

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Christine Hart (born February 3, 1950 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1986 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.

Hart was educated at Acadia University and the University of Toronto.

She was first elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election, held on April 17, 1986 in the Toronto constituency of York East. Hart defeated her closest opponent, Progressive Conservative Gina Brannan, by 1,391 votes in a riding formerly held by the PCs. She was re-elected by a much greater margin in the 1987 provincial election.

Hart was appointed Minister of Culture and Communications on August 2, 1989.

The Liberals were unexpectedly defeated by the New Democratic Party in the 1990 provincial election. Hart lost her constituency seat to Gary Malkowski of the NDP by 789 votes.