Cindy Duncan McMillan

Cindy Duncan McMillan,is a Canadian politician and farmer from Quebec.
Political history
McMillan has been actively engaged in her community for more than three decades, serving on community-based boards of directors and committees since she graduated from Carleton University in 1978. Her first elected seat was as a director with the Recreation Association in her home town of Poltimore. Since then she has taken active roles in school and sports organizations in her community. In 2006, the Municipality of LaPêche named her Volunteer of the Year for Ward 7.
McMillan served as president of the Quebec Farmers’ Association where she negotiated a partnership between anglophone farmers and the Union des Producteurs Agricoles du Quebec (UPA). As a result, she had the privilege of being the first president of the Quebec Farmers’ Association to hold a seat on the General Council of the UPA.
McMillan sat on the UPA’s Environment Committee, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture Environment Committee and the Canadian Minister of Agriculture’s advisory group on the environment. She served as president of the Comité du basin versant de la rivière Gatineau (COMGA).
McMillan developed and delivered the Gatineau South (English-language) “Agriculture Education in the Classroom” project to local elementary schools.
A passionate Canadian for a unified Canada, McMillan worked diligently at the local level, organizing rallies and boosting voter participation during both Quebec referendum campaigns on sovereignty association. She also participated in a CBC Montréal citizen’s forum on the issue. McMillan also actively participated in the ministerial consultations of minority-language communities upon release in 2003 of the Dion Report on official languages.
Active in the Liberal Party of Canada since she attended her first convention at 22, McMillan has advised the Leader of the Opposition on Quebec agriculture and co-chaired, with Wayne Easter, the 2008 Liberal Party task force on agriculture. She served on Liberal leader advisory committee on rural affairs.
McMillan won the Liberal nomination in Pontiac in 2007 and ran a close second in the General Election of 2008. She won the nomination again in September 2009.

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