Sam Oosterhoff

Samuel Earl Oosterhoff (born August 22, 1997) is a Canadian politician who has been the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Niagara West since 2018. A member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Oosterhoff serves as Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Agribusiness. He was previously Associate Minister of Energy-Intensive Industries in the Ontario Ministry of Energy and Mines from 2024 to 2026. First elected at the age of 19, Oosterhoff is the youngest MPP to ever be elected in Ontario, beating the previous record held by Reid Scott, a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPP in 1948 at the age of 21.