Maureen Anne McTeer is a Canadian author and lawyer, married to Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada.
McTeer was later awarded an MA in biotechnology, law and ethics from the University of Sheffield, and in 2008 she received an honorary LLD from that institution.
When Clark became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, McTeer became controversial for keeping her own surname and maintaining her own career.
Despite the party's re-election victory, McTeer was not elected in her riding, coming second to the Liberal candidate, Eugène Bellemare.
She promoted its French-language translation, Une coquille de silence, in Le combat des livres 2006.
[5] She is a specialist in medical law, and for a while was a member of the Royal Commission on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies [6] (1989–1993).