Melissa Lantsman

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2025 Canadian federal election: Thornhill
Melissa Lantsman
MP
Melissa Lantsman in the House of Commons - 2024.png
Lantsman in the House of Commons, 2024
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
Assumed office
September 13, 2022
Servingwith Tim Uppal
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Melissa Lantsman 44,41966.40+14.68
Liberal Liane Kotler20,87331.20–4.86
New Democratic William McCarty8331.24–4.73
People's Amir Hart4400.73–3.87
Green Dominic Piotrowski3530.50–1.14
Total valid votes/expense limit66,918
Total rejected ballots663
Turnout67,58168.94
Eligible voters97,300
Conservative notional hold Swing +9.61
Source: Elections Canada [37] [38]
2021 Canadian federal election : Thornhill
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Melissa Lantsman 25,68751.3%-3.26%$105,101.06
Liberal Gary Gladstone18,16836.3%+0.88%$92,712.82
New Democratic Raz Razvi3,0416.1%-0.38%$4,940.19
People's Samuel Greenfield2,3224.6%$9,751.81
Green Daniella Mikanovsky8441.7%-1.29%$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit50,06299.20.28$114,997.02
Total rejected ballots3900.77-0.31
Turnout50,45258.8-4.82
Eligible voters85,73976.06%0.66%
Conservative hold Swing -4.14
Source: Elections Canada [39]

Personal life

Lantsman is gay and was married in 2017. [40] She lives with severe Crohn's disease. [41] She speaks English, French and Russian and is a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays. [42] [43]

References

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  32. 1 2 Staff, The CJN (2024-02-15). "'The mobs will not silence my voice' says Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman after her Thornhill office is plastered with anti-Israel posters". The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
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  34. "Lantsman lays out Conservative plan to tackle Canada's housing crisis". Global News. April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 19, 2024. Conservatives have a plan that we are going to tie federal funding to municipalities increasing their approval by 15%. Those who do it will get a bonus - a building bonus. Those who do not will get fined. And however they do - whatever housing units they put forward - we just want to see houses built, and we've got a plan to build in terms of results, in terms of actual places that people can live in. So we're fine with municipalities and provinces making decisions about the kinds of housing for their own communities. We just want to see more approvals and less gatekeepers in the way.
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  40. "Real Weddings: Inside a dance-filled same-sex celebration at the Four Seasons". Toronto Life. January 9, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  41. "Crohn's and colitis: In search of a cure for a 'Jewish' disease". 6 June 2017.
  42. Lantsman, Melissa (February 28, 2021). "Solid start for the boys in blue". X. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  43. Maloney, Ryan; Zimonjic, Peter (October 17, 2021). "Meet some of the new faces coming to the House of Commons". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved April 19, 2024.