Peggy Nash

Peggy A. Nash CM (born 28 June 1951) is a Canadian labour official and politician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Parkdale—High Park electoral district (riding) in Toronto, and was the Official Opposition's Industry Critic. Before becoming a parliamentarian, she worked as a labour official at the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW). In 2005, she became the first woman to negotiate a major contract with one of the Detroit-based automobile corporations.

She was first elected as the MP for Parkdale—High Park in the 2006 federal election. In the 2008 federal election, she was defeated in her re-election bid by Liberal candidate Gerard Kennedy. Following the 2008 election, Nash returned to her previous job as a labour official with the CAW.

On 15 August 2009, she was elected to a two-year term as the federal New Democratic Party's president at the party's convention in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was a candidate again in the 2011 federal election and defeated Kennedy, garnering 47 percent of the vote to reclaim her former seat in the House of Commons of Canada.

In 2012, Nash was a candidate for the leadership of the federal NDP. She finished fourth on the second ballot at the party's convention in Toronto on 24 March 2012. In April 2012, she was reappointed as the NDP's Finance Critic by new leader Thomas Mulcair. She lost her seat in the October 2015 election.

After politics, she became an educator associated with Toronto Metropolitan University. In 2022, she was invested into the Order of Canada for her work in the labour movement and getting women into politics. She became the executive director of the progressive Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in March 2024.