Silvia Gualtieri

Silvia Gualtieri is the Member of Provincial Parliament for Mississauga East—Cooksville, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
Gualtieri defeated Ontario Liberal Party leader and former mayor of Mississauga Bonnie Crombie in the 2025 Ontario provincial election, winning 46.5% of the vote to Crombie's 43.1%. She succeeds Kaleed Rasheed, who was elected as a PC candidate but resigned from the party over his relationship with a developer involved in the Greenbelt scandal.
Gualtieri ran in the 2022 Mississauga municipal election for the position of Ward 2 councillor, looking to take a seat without an incumbent. She placed third.
Gualtieri is the sister of Rudy Cuzzetto, MPP for Mississauga—Lakeshore, and the mother-in-law of Patrick Brown, mayor of Brampton.