Catherine McKenna PC is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, McKenna was the minister of environment and climate change from 2015 to 2019 and minister of infrastructure and communities from 2019 to 2021. She was elected as the first female Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre in 2015.

McKenna previously worked as a lawyer in Canada and Indonesia and as a negotiator with the United Nations mission in East Timor, and taught at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She also co-founded the charitable organisation Level Justice.

McKenna holds degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and McGill University’s Faculty of Law. A mother of three, Minister McKenna is a long-time resident of the Glebe.