Christine Stewart Biography

Christine Susan Stewart, PC (January 3, 1941 – April 25, 2015) was a Canadian politician. A Liberal Party Member of Parliament for the riding of Northumberland, she was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as an Opposition member by a margin of 27 votes in 1988. She was elected twice more in 1993 and 1997 with substantive majorities and served in the cabinets of prime minister Jean Chrétien first as Secretary of State (Latin America and Africa) from 1993 to 1997, and then as Minister of the Environment from 1997 to 1999. She announced her resignation from politics for personal reasons before the election of 2000.