Lisa MacLeod

Lisa MacLeod is a Canadian politician, who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on March 30, 2006 and subsequently re-elected on October 10, 2007. MacLeod received the highest vote total of any Progressive Conservative in the 2007 provincial election.

A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, MacLeod was elected in the Nepean—Carleton electoral district. She is the youngest female conservative ever elected in Ontario, either federally or provincially, and is the youngest member sitting in the Ontario Legislature as of 2006.

MacLeod made headlines in the summer of 2007 when Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella suggested she would rather be at home baking cookies than attending a political event with then PC Leader John Tory. Kinsella later removed the posting and apologized to MacLeod. Following the incident MacLeod wrote the cookbook I'd Rather Be Baking Cookies: A Collection of Recipes from Lisa MacLeod and Friends.

MacLeod serves as the Official Opposition Critic for Government and Consumer Services and is Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Government Agencies. Previously she had served as Official Opposition Critic for Children and Youth Services, and was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.

MacLeod studied political science at St. Francis Xavier University. Prior to her election, MacLeod was a federal Conservative aide on Parliament Hill and a political commentator. Her family ties to politics include Donald MacLeod, a former Cabinet Minister under Robert Stanfield in Nova Scotia, and Donald Cameron, a former Premier of Nova Scotia. Her father, Danny MacLeod, served three decades as a municipal councillor in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia until his death on August 29, 2007.

MacLeod is married to Joseph Varner and they have one daughter, Victoria, who was born in 2005.

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