Martha Hall Findlay
Martha Hall Findlay (born August 17, 1959) is a
Canadian businesswoman, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician who is now the Director and James S. and Barbara A. Palmer Chair at the
School of Public Policy (University of Calgary). She previously served as the president and CEO of the
Canada West Foundation, a Calgary-based think tank, and as senior vice-president and chief sustainability officer with Suncor Energy. Previously, she was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada as the
Liberal Party of Canada's candidate in the Toronto riding of
Willowdale in a federal
by-election held on March 17, 2008, to fill a vacancy created by former Liberal MP
Jim Peterson's resignation. She was re-elected in the
2008 general election but lost her seat in the
2011 election.
She had previously been the party's candidate for
Newmarket—Aurora in the
2004 federal election, losing narrowly to
Conservative candidate
Belinda Stronach, and the first declared candidate for the
Liberal Party leadership election to succeed
Paul Martin in 2006. She was also an unsuccessful candidate in the
2013 leadership race.
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