Leslie Church
- Born
- Edmonton, Alberta
- Education
- BA (Honours) Political Science & International Relations, University of Alberta; MSc Politics of the World Economy, London School of Economics; JD, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
- Career
- Lawyer, Senior Advisor to four Canadian Cabinet Ministers, Chief of Staff to Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance
- Political Experience
- Member of Parliament for Toronto–St. Paul's since 2025, Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretaries of State for Labour, for Seniors, and for Children and Youth, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Jobs and Families (Persons with Disabilities)
- Notable
- Served on the Board of Governors and as President of the Student's Union at the University of Alberta. Junior Fellow at Massey College. Member of the advisory panel for the 2004 Rae Report.
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Business & Financial Interests
Before entering politics, Leslie Church had a career in both the public and private sectors. She worked as the Head of Communications and Public Affairs for Google Canada. She also has extensive experience as a senior political staffer, most notably serving as the Chief of Staff to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland. Her previous roles also include working as Chief of Staff to the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
Key Relationships & Connections
Leslie Church has a well-documented professional relationship with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, for whom she served as Chief of Staff for several years. This role placed her in a key advisory position within the federal government. She has also been identified as a close advisor and part of the inner circle of the current Liberal government leadership.
Where Leslie falls on key policy spectrums
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Don Stewart won with 23,700 votes (33.1%)
Total votes cast: 71,581
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Mr. Speaker, what did 13 provincial premiers and territorial premiers agree to this week? They agreed to a permanent doubling of the national school food program that will be brought into 10,000 schools across the country. Thirteen provinces and territories agreed, but this opposition cannot get on board to feed kids in our schools. If they are going to stand up and talk about affordability for
Let me ask you a bit about your point about standards. I know one of the discussions we're often seeing within the disability community is around how we ensure that accessible housing is built as broadly as possible. We have Accessibility Standards Canada. We have a certification from the Rick Hansen Foundation. How should we be looking at ensuring that accessible design is being built into
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all the guests. This is a very important discussion that we're having today. Mr. Gladstone, thank you very much for your comments. I want to pick up on and give you a chance to expand on a couple of points you made that I think are very important. I very much share the concern around the overwhelming need for supportive housing right now for people with
Let me ask you a question about the mission of the ICC, which I know is to expand affordable housing projects for mixed-use. Can you describe to us in concrete terms what mixed-use means? That is, in my experience, such an innovative approach to supportive housing, and it's still not well known.
We will agree with that. The rationale for it is that Alberta completed a significant privacy review last year. It is the first province to undertake one in a long time, and recently. That's why we thought they would have the most valuable insight. We're certainly open to hearing from others. The suggestion to be flexible on the number we have during an hour is very good.
Yes, it's a subamendment to have eight meetings. I really appreciate my colleague's comments about making sure that we are managing the business of the committee and tying up some of the reports that we have under way. When it comes to privacy, we are, first of all, squarely within the mandate of this committee. As my colleague set out, we are a decade or more overdue in terms of an update to a
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. We've just had a good 18 minutes of introduction to this proposed motion, which has covered a lot of ground. I appreciate Mr. Barrett's comments about, in particular, how Canada should be supporting our sovereign space launch capacity. When this issue has arisen, my colleagues opposite have left some doubt, I'll say, in our minds about whether they support that
Then I will make my case for—