Quyon’s Melanie Lang running for office in Southern Ontario

Charles Dickson

Pontiac June 24, 2021

Former Quyon resident Melanie Lang will be running as a Liberal in the next federal election for the southern Ontario riding of Wellington-Halton Hills.

Lang is the daughter of Dianne and Eddie McCann of Quyon and is married to Paul Lang, son of Elaine and the late Jack Lang of Clarendon.

A student at St. Mary’s elementary school in Quyon and then Pontiac High School in Shawville, Lang completed high school at Holy Trinity in Kanata. In 1998, she enrolled in the Marketing Management program at the University of Guelph in 1998 where she completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees and is now working on her doctorate. She and Paul moved to Fergus, just north of Guelph, in 2005 and “we’ve loved living here ever since,” she says.

Lang recalls being out in the community with her father, a former mayor of the Municipality of Pontiac, Eddie McCann.  “I can remember, as a little kid, standing next to him while he talked with people about various issues when we were out,” she says. “It seemed like it was always part of our upbringing.”

McCann says he is not surprised at all that his daughter has gone into politics. “She has always valued public service and respected people. She will be a great Member of Parliament if she is elected.”

Lang was named the Liberal candidate on June 15 and will be vying for the seat currently occupied by Conservative MP Michael Chong.