Career
As of 2007, she works as a Justice of the Peace. Molinari served as president of a local Parent Teacher Association, and was elected to the York Catholic District School Board in 1988. Molinari was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Liberal candidate Dan Ronen in the riding of Thornhill.
Molinari"s bid for election was almost derailed early in the campaign when one of her pollsters asked constituents how they felt about being represented by a candidate who was the son of a Holocaust survivor (Ronen"s father had survived internment at Auschwitz, and Thornhill has a large Orthodox Jewish population).
She overcame this controversy, however, and defeated Ronen by 343 votes. While she polled better than most other Tories in the Greater Toronto Area, Molinari was not able to overcome a provincial shift to the Liberals and lost to local councillor Mario Racco by 796 votes.
In 2004, Molinari was appointed to a post in Catholic Missions in Canada. Some regarded this appointment as controversial, given Molinari"s pro-choice views on abortion.
She has organized and hosted an annual fundraiser to raise funds for Catholic Missions within Canada.
Molinari campaigned for the Ward Four council seat in the 2006 Vaughan municipal election, and lost to Sandra Yeung Racco, the wife of the former Thornhill Master in Public Policy who unseated Molinari in 2003. On May 18, 2007, Ontario’s Attorney General Michael Bryant announced Molinari’s appointment as a justice of the peace.
