Kathryn McGarry

Kathryn McGarry is a Canadian politician who has served as president of the Ontario Liberal Party since 2023. A critical care nurse from 1978, she was defeated as the Liberal candidate in Cambridge in 2007 and 2011, then won the riding in 2014 and sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until 2018. She was parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Transportation, then Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry from 2016 and Minister of Transportation from January 2018 in the cabinet of Premier Kathleen Wynne, and lost her seat in the 2018 election. In October 2018 she was elected the sixth mayor of Cambridge, defeating an 18-year incumbent, and served until she lost to Jan Liggett in 2022. She introduced a private member's bill, the Lung Health Act 2014, and was elected president of the Ontario Liberal Party in March 2023.