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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will want to read this column.

So will Conservative leadership hopefuls Peter MacKay and Pierre Poilievre.

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Leslyn Lewis is a GTA lawyer who holds a PhD in international law. Proudly Christian, she’s also a single mom of two who grew up in East York.

She, the Toronto Sun has learned, is poised to make history.

“I’m running to be leader of the Conservative Party of Canada,” she has told friends in an e-mail. “It’s the first time in Canadian history that a visible minority woman has run for leader of either major federal party, and potentially for prime minister of Canada!”

And just like that, the Conservative Party leadership race just got a little more interesting.

Leslyn who, you say? Even she admits she’s not a household name.

Yet.

This could soon change. Certainly, people who work in law and the courts will know her name from the high-profile cases and civil litigation that Lewis has been involved in. People in Scarborough-Rouge Park may remember her as the Conservative candidate in the 2015 federal election.