Caroline Mulroney’s time in Queen’s Park will come to an end in early June, as the Ontario cabinet minister has tendered her resignation.
Mulroney, who serves as president of the Treasury Board and minister of francophone affairs, made the announcement on May 25. She said she had informed Premier Doug Ford the previous day of her decision to resign from cabinet and the legislature on June 5.
“It is not a decision I have made lightly,” she said in a letter telling her constituents that serving them has been “one of the greatest privileges of my life.”
Mulroney said family events in recent years, such as the passing of her father, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and her grown-up children leaving home, made her decide to “step back from elected life and begin a new chapter.” Mulroney is the eldest child of the former prime minister, who died in 2024….