The Honourable Kellie Leitch, Minister of Labour & Minister of the Status of Women Visits Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart High School was very pleased and privileged to welcome The Honourable Kellie Leitch, Minister of Labour and Minister of the Status of Women to speak to the students today.

Minister Leitch is from Simcoe-Grey (Ontario) and was elected to the House of Commons in May 2011.  In July 2013, Dr. Leitch was appointed Minister of Labour and Minister of Status of Women. Previously, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and to the Minister of Labour in May 2011.

Dr. Leitch is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon and an associate professor of surgery. She is the former Chair of the Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership and has served on various councils and boards, including the YMCA and Community Living.

As a volunteer, Dr. Leitch served as council member on the National Research Council of Canada, was a board member of Genome Canada, a director on the YMCA of Greater Toronto board of directors, Vice-President of the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research and founder of The Sandbox Project.

Dr. Leitch earned her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Toronto in 1994 and her MBA from Dalhousie University in 1998. 

Dr. Leitch has been recognized with the Order of Ontario for her advocacy work on behalf of Canadian children, and in 2005, she was selected as one of Canada's "Top 40 Under 40" for her work in both medicine and business.