This is an accepted version of this page Ahmed Hussen PC MP (Somali: Axmed Xuseen; born 1976) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been serving as the Minister of International Development since July 26, 2023.

Due to a Canadian government policy that delayed granting permanent residency status to emigrants from Somalia, he had to decline three athletic running scholarships to universities in the United States.

He was hired the following year as an assistant to Ontario Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty, then-leader of the province's Official Opposition.

[5] Hussen later worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Youth Engaged in National Security Issues committee.

The representative body facilitated a $500 million revitalization and redevelopment project in Regent Park, the largest such initiative in the country.

Established in 2005, the panel brought together prominent members from a number of Canada's cultural communities and government officials in order to discuss policy and program issues, and to promote dialogue and strengthen understanding between the national authorities and its electorate.

[11][12] In December 2014, Hussen presented himself as a candidate for a Liberal Party of Canada seat in the riding of York South—Weston for the 42nd Canadian federal election.

[22] In a 2018, Angus Reid Institute poll found that Hussen is one of the least popular ministers in Trudeau's cabinet.

After the Liberals won the 2021 federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept Hussen in his cabinet, moving him to the housing and diversity and inclusion file.

[27] In August 2022, it was discovered that Hussen's department had given a $133,000 grant to the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), an organization whose senior consultant has a history of anti-semitism.

In January 2025, Hussen went on a Middle Eastern tour to discuss regional issues after the fall of the Assad regime the previous December.

The trip included the first Canadian delegatory visit to the Syria–Turkey border area, where $17.25 million of humanitarian aid to help Syria was announced.

He also received the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Authority Award for his efficacious advocacy work in Regent Park.