Meet Lee Fairclough: Etobicoke-Lakeshore candidate
While leading St. Mary’s General Hospital through the COVID-19 pandemic, Lee Fairclough says she began to see the impacts of the decisions made by the Ford government. Fairclough thought about what the coming years held for publicly funded healthcare and education systems.
By 2022 and nearly 25 years of working in healthcare, Fairclough resigned as the hospital’s president and joined the Ontario Liberal Party. After a short and lost campaign, Fairclough has since taken the role as senior vice-president for clinical care at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Though the choice to run came again.
“The truth is, I’m only more worried,” she says.
“I just really can’t stand by and watch billions of dollars being wasted and not ensure that there’s more accountability around those decisions.”