17 Facts About Lisa MacLeod

Lisa Anne MacLeod was born on 1974 and is a Canadian politician who represented Nepean in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Lisa MacLeod previously served as the Ontario minister of children, community and social services from 2018 to 2019 and Ontario minister of heritage, sport, tourism and culture industries from 2019 to 2022.

Lisa MacLeod was born on October 29,1974, in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

Lisa MacLeod went to St Francis Xavier University, where she obtained a degree in political science.

Lisa MacLeod is married to Joseph Varner and they have one daughter, Victoria.

In 2022, Lisa MacLeod revealed that she had been dealing with depression since 2014, and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and a metabolic condition, which requires her to take life long medications.

Lisa MacLeod was elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election that was held to replace John Baird who resigned to run for the federal House of Commons.

In 2007 Lisa MacLeod was satirized by Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella when she was mockingly portrayed in a spoofed picture suggesting she would rather be at home baking cookies than attending a political event with then PC Leader John Tory.

Lisa MacLeod announced her candidacy for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party on October 6,2014, but withdrew on February 6,2015, following federal cabinet minister John Baird's announcement that he was resigning from cabinet and would not be running for re-election to the House of Commons of Canada.

Lisa MacLeod told reporters that she has been "under enormous pressure from my constituents to seek the federal nomination to replace John Baird", in the new riding of Nepean.

Lisa MacLeod decided not to seek Baird's seat in the House of Commons and remained at Queen's Park.

In July 2014, Lisa MacLeod became the party's critic for Treasury Board issues, and in October of that year, she became the Vice-Chair for the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.

Lisa MacLeod was Critic for Digital Government from June 2016 until February 2017, when she became the party' critic for Ottawa issues and the Anti-Racism Secretariat.

In January 2018, after party leader Patrick Brown stepped down and Vic Fedeli became leader, Lisa MacLeod was chosen to replace Fedeli as the party's finance critic.

Lisa MacLeod further threatened that if the message of support was not forthcoming, her office would release a press statement labeling ONTABA as "self-interested".

Immediate calls from parents of children with autism for Lisa MacLeod's resignation were rebuffed by the minister.

Lisa MacLeod was shuffled from Minister of Children, Community and Social Services to Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport in 2019.