The Honourable Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s current Minister of Energy and Mines and the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for King-Vaughan.
Stephen Lecce serves as Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Mines, with a mandate focused on expanding clean, reliable and affordable energy and accelerating responsible development of Ontario’s critical minerals.
In his mission to position Ontario as an energy superpower, Stephen is expanding electricity generation—anchored by nuclear power—along with transmission and storage. To deliver on this urgent imperative, he is advancing Ontario’s leadership in nuclear energy, including the first grid-scale small modular reactor (SMR) in the G7 and plans to build what could become the largest nuclear generating station in the world.
With his mandate, he is working to aggressively unlock one of the largest untapped deposits of critical minerals and rare earth metals on the planet—vital to Canada’s future prosperity and security. This includes accelerating permitting to get shovels in the ground, while working to diversify export markets—from minerals to nuclear energy.
Stephen’s first experience in politics began in his hometown of Vaughan where he was involved in the 1999 election of the late MPP Al Palladini. Since then, he has served as Chief Spokesperson to Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper. Upon his election in 2018, he served as Deputy Government House Leader, the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure, Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier, and then served as Ontario’s longest-serving Minister of Education in modern history.