Leslyn Lewis
Canada
Conservative Party of Canada
member of the House of Commons of Canada
government
Leslyn Ann Lewis is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Haldimand—Norfolk since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party, Lewis contested the party leadership in the leadership elections of 2020 and 2022, placing third both times. She was the first visible minority woman to run for the federal Conservative Party leadership. In a 2025 interview with Jordan Peterson, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre praised Lewis’s work as infrastructure critic and identified her among members of his front bench discussed as key figures in a future government.
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Sep 17, 2026
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The Conservative MP is suing York University and professor Sean Rehaag, claiming he derailed her scholar candidacy by flagging allegedly defamatory claims she was racist, anti-gay, and anti-refugee.
Conservatives rally to Lewis as a social-conservative MP being punished by campus activists, and see the lawsuit as a test case against academic blacklisting of the right.