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Christine Elliott is currently MPP for Whitby-Oshawa, and Official Opposition Critic for Women’s Issues and the Attorney General.

Christine completed her law degree at the University of Western Ontario and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1980. Christine is a founding member and partner of Flaherty Dow Elliott & McCarthy, where she practises real estate, corporate and estate law.

In 2005, Christine received the “Peter Perry Award”, Whitby 's outstanding citizen of the year award, in recognition of her exceptional contributions to the community. Christine, a champion for persons with special needs, is the co-founder and a Director of the Abilities Centre, a multi-purpose athletic, recreation and performing arts facility for persons with special needs to be built in Whitby . She has been a Director and Past Chair of Grandview Children's Centre and a Director of the Lakeridge Health Whitby Foundation. Christine has also served as a Director of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

As a result of her service with Durham Mental Health Services, a community mental health agency, it named one of its new houses in Ajax “Elliott House”. Christine has also won a “Durham Woman of Success Award” for her outstanding contributions to the community. Christine is a “Paul Harris Fellow”, having received Rotary International's highest award in recognition of her pro bono legal work in establishing a charitable foundation for one of the Whitby Rotary Clubs.

Christine is a Director of Legacy Private Trust, a Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Chair of the Symphony's Planned Giving Program.

Christine was born in Oshawa and raised in Whitby , where she currently resides with her husband, Jim Flaherty, and their fifteen-year-old triplet sons, John, Galen and Quinn.