Janice Laking, (née McCuaig; c. 1930) is a retired Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Barrie, Ontario from 1988 to 2000.
The daughter of former Simcoe North federal Member of Parliament Duncan Fletcher McCuaig, Laking was first elected to Barrie City Council in 1972.
She was nominated in 1978 as the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate in Simcoe South in the 1979 federal election, but later withdrew to mount a campaign for mayor against incumbent Ross Archer.
[5] This was the only riding in the entire province not won by a Liberal in that election, and media generally credited Harper's victory to the fact that Laking was such a popular mayor that the voters didn't want her to leave the mayor's chair.
[8] She was defeated by Jim Perri in 2000,[9] and subsequently served as a citizenship judge.