Lisa MacLeod
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Lisa MacLeod MPP |
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| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Nepean—Carleton |
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Assumed office March 30, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | John Baird |
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October 29, 1974 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Varner |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Occupation | Executive assistant |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
Lisa MacLeod is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in a by-election in 2006. She represents the riding of Nepean—Carleton.
Macleod was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. She went to St. Francis Xavier University where she obtain a degree in political science. She moved to Ottawa in 1998 with a goal of becoming involved in politics. She worked as an assistant to Ottawa City Councillor Jan Harder and as a riding assistant to federal Member of Parliament (MP) Pierre Poilievre. She is married to Joseph Varner and they have one daughter, Victoria. Varner was a candidate in the 2003 provincial election but lost to Richard Patten.
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. She won the election on March 30, 2006, beating her Liberal opponent Brian Ford in the Ottawa-area riding of Nepean—Carleton by a margin of 6,000 votes. She was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2014.
In 2007 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. Kinsella later removed the posting and apologized to MacLeod. Following the incident MacLeod wrote a cookbook called I'd Rather Be Baking Cookies: A Collection of Recipes from Lisa MacLeod and Friends. Macleod said, "Why not play off that experience, make a cookbook and poke fun at the absurdity of it?" The money raised from the sale of the cookbooks went to her election campaign.
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