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Lisa MacLeod is the MPP for Nepean-Carleton. She was first elected in a by-election in 2006 and was re-elected in the 2007 provincial election.
Lisa has served as the Official Opposition Critic for Children and Youth Services, Government and Consumer Services and the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. In 2008, Lisa was appointed as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Government Agencies. In 2009, Lisa became the Official Opposition Critic for Revenue and Government Accountability.
In 2008 Lisa was named to Ottawa Life Magazine’s “Top 50 People in the Capital” and in May 2007 Lisa was nominated for a YMCA/ YWCA Woman of Distinction Award.
In 2006 Lisa co-chaired a successful Manotick Legion Rebuilding Fund BBQ. She was also part of a team that brought Red Friday to Barrhaven in order to support Canadian troops abroad. Lisa helped found and has served on the South Nepean Autism Centre's organizing committee.
Lisa served in 2006 and 2007 as the Honourary Chair for the Nepean Seniors Walk for Independence and from 2004-2005 Lisa was the Communications Chair, and member of the Board of Directors, for the Canadian Cancer Society- Ottawa Unit.
Lisa is currently a Honourary Patron of the Ottawa Christmas Exchange and the Honourary President of the Metcalfe Agricultural Society's annual Fair. She also is host of a semi-annual Women in Business Breakfast series in Nepean-Carleton. Lisa MacLeod was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and she is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University.
Lisa MacLeod and her husband Professor Joe Varner reside in Nepean with their daughter Victoria and their best friend, Abbey the puppy.
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Vice-Chair:
In December of 2007, Lisa MacLeod, MPP for Nepean-Carleton was unanimously chosen to Vice-Chair the powerful Queen’s Park Committee on Government Agencies, which scrutinizes public appointments. This multi-partisan support comes on the heels of MacLeod’s successful resolution on making Queen’s Park more family friendly which also received the rare all-party unanimous consent of an opposition initiative.
MacLeod was pleased to have the respect of her colleagues on all sides of the legislature. “To be named an Opposition Vice-Chair with unanimous support of this politically sensitive committee is a real privilege and I am looking forward to the challenge,”said MacLeod.
The Government Agencies Committee reviews and reports on the operation of all agencies, boards and commissions to which the Lieutenant Governor in Council makes some or all of the appointments. Such agencies include the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO).
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