Christine Elliott, deputy premier of Ontario and MPP for Newmarket-Aurora will resign from government at the end of the current electoral term this Spring. She will be 67 by then. She is the widow of former Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty under former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006–2014). Elliott has triplet sons by Flaherty. She calls her children life’s greatest blessing. Elliott was the runner-up in both the 2015 and 2018 PC party leadership races and placed third in the 2009 race.