13 Facts About Diane Finley

Diane Finley was born on October 3,1957 and is a former Canadian politician.

Diane Finley was raised in Port Dover and Charlotteville in Norfolk County, Ontario, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

Diane Finley then worked in a series of private and public sector jobs, in a variety of fields.

Diane Finley was named "one of Canada's future leaders" by the Governor-General's Study Conference 2000.

Diane Finley's husband was Doug Finley, a Senator from Ontario and former campaign manager and director of political operations for the Conservative Party of Canada.

In 2006, Diane Finley announced that she has Graves' disease, a non-life-threatening thyroid condition that causes increased sensitivity to bright lights and forces her to wear tinted glasses.

Diane Finley defeated Bob Speller, a Liberal cabinet minister, by 1,645 votes.

Diane Finley was shuffled from the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada portfolio on January 4,2007.

Diane Finley was re-elected in the 2008 election and resumed her former post as Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development.

In March 2015, a parliamentary ethics report on an affair linked to disgraced prime ministerial aide Nigel Wright found that Diane Finley had breached conflict of interest rules in her capacity as minister by diverting funding to a favoured project in Markham whose promoter had close ties to the Conservative Party.

Diane Finley was passed over for interim leader and subsequently placed in Rona Ambrose's shadow cabinet.

Diane Finley resigned from the House of Commons on May 11,2021.

Diane Finley was the founder of Canada's largest publicly funded ambulance service company, Canadian Medical Response, and has been active in the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.