Jennifer McKelvie

Jennifer McKelvie (née Gray; born 1977) is a Canadian politician and geoscientist who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Ajax since 2025. McKelvie was the deputy mayor of Toronto from 2022 to 2025, representing Scarborough and was the Toronto city councillor for Ward 25 Scarborough—Rouge Park from 2018 to 2025. She ran for the Liberal Party in the 2025 Canadian election, and resigned from council shortly after becoming an MP.

In the 2014 Toronto municipal election, she was a candidate in the now defunct Ward 44, and came within less than 600 votes of defeating then long-time incumbent Ron Moeser. As the statutory deputy mayor, McKelvie assumed certain mayoral powers following the resignation of John Tory on February 17, 2023, and remained the highest-ranking official in the city until the swearing-in of Olivia Chow as mayor on July 12, 2023, following the 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election. Under Chow, McKelvie continued in her role as deputy mayor, serving in an honorary capacity and representing Scarborough. She resigned as a city councillor after her election as an MP in May 2025.