Career
She represents the riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. Hunter and her family immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in 1975. She grew up in Scarborough, graduated from the University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus) with a Bachelor, and completed her Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management.
She was Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance, and was previously CAO of Toronto Community Housing.
In 2013 she ran as the Liberal candidate in a by-election called to replace Margarett Best who resigned due to health reasons. She defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Ken Kirupa by 1,246 votes.
She faced Kirupa again in 2014 this time defeating him by 7,610 votes. In June 2014, she was appointed as an Associate Minister (Minister without portfolio) for the Ministry of Finance focusing on the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan.
