Simcoe-Grey Constituency: Leitch and Stephen Harper

simcoe-grey constituency: At least she is not afraid to be different, according to The Waterloo Record. A pediatric orthopedic surgeon from Western University in London, Ont., Leitch was parachuted into Simcoe-Grey constituency in 2011 after Harper threw the previous MP, Helena Guergis, under the bus for causing him public embarrassment. Kellie Leitch, the Conservative MP from rural Ontario who is running for Stephen Harper old job. Two years later, Leitch was promoted to the cabinet as Minister of Labour and the Status of Women. Then, in the heat of the 2015 election campaign, she was front and centre when the Conservatives, to their shame, played the race card by promoting the launch of a tip line to report "barbaric cultural practices" among newcomers to Canada. As a minister, she first drew attention when she publicly supported the export of Canadian asbestos, a position not widely shared among her medical colleagues. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.