She started working as a student in the offices of Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray in Windsor during her undergraduate degree in 1995.
He served as Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for Scarborough Southwest from 2003 to 2018 and had previously been a city councillor (Ward 37).
On November 11, 2006, two days before the election The Globe and Mail published an article by columnist John Barber that endorsed Heaps while belittling Holland.
Barber characterized her as the "wife of local MPP Lorenzo Berardinetti and so-called 'political adviser' (read: pillow talker).
[8] In December The Globe and Mail published a correction stating that Holland was "unfairly demeaned" and that she in fact had more than 10 years experience working in government.
Holland claimed that unconnected bike lanes on Pharmacy Avenue and Birchmount Road were leading some residents who lived on those streets to move out of the ward.