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Carleton Party Name Contact #’S Web Site Notes Conservative Pierre Tel: 613-992-2772 2011 – 54% Poilievre Fax: 613-992-1209 2015 – 47% (-7%) Ottawa Area MPs January 25, 2016 Carleton Party Name Contact #’s Web Site Notes Conservative Pierre Tel: 613-992-2772 http://pierremp.ca 2011 – 54% Poilievre Fax: 613-992-1209 2015 – 47% (-7%) Email: [email protected] Address: 1139 Mill Street (Main Office) Manotick ON K4M 1A5 Phone: 1 613 692-3331 Profile: Pierre Poilievre, PC, MP; born June 3, 1979 is a Canadian politician and was the Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister of State. He is currently a member of the Canadian House of Commons representing the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton. First elected in 2004, Poilievre was re-elected in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015. Poilievre received the second highest vote total of any candidate in the 2008 election. Poilievre was born in Calgary, Alberta, the son of schoolteachers. Poilievre is Franco-Albertan in origin. He studied international relations at the University of Calgary, following a period of study in commerce at the same institution. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary. Poilievre has done policy work for Canadian Alliance MPs Stockwell Day and Jason Kenney, and prior to running for office himself; worked as a full-time assistant to Day. He also worked for Magna International, focusing on communications, and has done public relations work. In 1999, writing as Pierre Marcel Poilievre, he contributed an essay, "Building Canada Through Freedom" to the book @Stake—"As Prime Minister, I Would...", a collection of essays from Magna International's "As Prime Minister" awards program. In his essay he argued, among other things, for a two-term limit for all Members of Parliament. He did not win the competition and is now in his fifth term as an MP. At the time, he was editorially described as being in the second year of a Commerce program at the University of Calgary. His self-description was as "a political junkie with a passion for public debating and a special interest in international relations". Ottawa Area MPs January 25, 2016 Ottawa Centre Party Name Contact #’s Web Site Notes Liberal Catherine Tel: 613-996-5322 2011- 20% Mary Fax: 613-996-5323 2015 – 43% (+23%) McKenna Email: [email protected] Knocked off NDP MP Address: 107 Catherine Street (Main Office) Paul Dewar Ottawa, Ontario K2P 0P4 Telephone: 613-946-8682 Fax: 613-946-8680 Profile: Appointed Minister of the Environment and Climate Change on November 4, 2015 Catherine co-founded and was the Executive Director of Canadian Lawyers Abroad, a charitable organization based at the University of Ottawa. Until recently, she was the Executive Director the Banff Forum, a leading Canadian organization that brings together young leaders to discuss how to tackle key public policy challenges facing Canada. Catherine teaches a course on Global Civil Society to graduate students at the Munk School of Global Affairs and is a board member of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has worked internationally as a legal adviser for the UN in East Timor and on trade issues in Indonesia. Catherine is an active member of the Ottawa Centre community. She was Vice President of the Glebe Community Association and has served on the boards of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa and Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool. She enjoys coaching children’s soccer and swimming with the National Capital Region YMCA Masters Swim Team. Catherine is married and has three children. Ottawa Area MPs January 25, 2016 Orleans Party Name Contact #’s Web Site Notes Liberal Andrew Leslie Tel: 613-995-1800 Star Candidate – Former CF Fax: 613-995-6298 General 2011- 38% Email: [email protected] 2015 – 60% (+22%) Address: 255 Centrum Blvd (Main Office) Knocked off Conservative Orléans, Ontario MP Royal Galipeau K1E 3W3 Telephone: 613-834-1800 Fax: 613-590-1201 Profile: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tabbed retired general Andrew Leslie to be the government's chief whip in the Commons. The whip is in charge of mustering votes in the Commons, although the Liberals have promised that MPs will be free to vote as they please except in critical matters. For retired Lt-Gen. Andrew Leslie, being in the service of fellow Canadians is second nature. Andrew has had a decorated 35-year-career with the Canadian Armed Forces and after working tirelessly to protect Canadians both home and abroad, Andrew is focused on being a voice for change for all residents of Orléans. Andrew and his wife, Karen, both attended the University of Ottawa. As a teacher she has taught across Ottawa, and currently volunteers at the Montfort Hospital. Andrew has advocated for communities at every opportunity, working with charities for disabled soldiers and veterans, and supporting the arts through organizations such as the Opera Lyra and the Johann Strauss Foundation. Ottawa Area MPs January 25, 2016 Ottawa South Party Name Contact #’s Web Site Notes Liberal David Tel: 613-992-3269 www.davidmcguinty.ca Incumbent McGuinty Fax: 613-995-1534 2011- 44% Email: [email protected] 2015 – 60% (+16%) Address: 1883 Bank Street (Main Office) Unit A Ottawa, Ontario K1V 7Z9 Telephone: Fax: Profile: David Joseph McGuinty, MP is a Canadian lawyer and politician from Ontario, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa South and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal. He was first elected in the 2004 federal election and was re-elected in 2006, 2008 and 2011. McGuinty is the brother of former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and is the son of former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Dalton McGuinty Sr. David McGuinty was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario in a family of twelve. His parents are politician and professor Dalton McGuinty, Sr. and full- time nurse Elizabeth McGuinty (née Pexton). Being the son of a Francophone mother and an Anglophone father, McGuinty is bilingual. He earned a Diploma in Agriculture from the Kemptville College of Agriculture, a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of Ottawa, specialized diplomas in Civil and Comparative Law at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Ottawa, and finally a Master of Laws at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An environmental lawyer by profession, he has long been closely involved in Liberal politics. He was chosen to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Prime Minister's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, a government think-tank concerned with sustainable development.[ Ottawa Area MPs January 25, 2016 Ottawa-Vanier Party Name Contact #’s Web Site Notes Liberal Mauril Tel: 613-992-4766 www.mauril.ca Incumbent Belanger Fax: 613-992-6448 2011- 38% Email: [email protected] 2015 – 58% (+20%) Address: 168 Charlotte Street (Main Office) Suite 504 Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8K6 Telephone: Fax: Profile: Mauril A. Bélanger, PC MP BA is a Member of the Canadian Parliament from the Liberal Party, representing Ottawa-Vanier. Bélanger has been involved in advocacy for the rights of Franco-Ontarians. Bélanger was first elected to Parliament on February 13, 1995 in a by-election. His predecessor, Jean-Robert Gauthier, was appointed to the Senate. Bélanger represents the riding of Ottawa—Vanier in the eastern part of the city, an electoral district containing diverse economic and social classes. It is home to many ethnic communities and has a large Francophone population. Ottawa-Vanier is considered a solid Liberal riding, having returned a Liberal MP since its creation in 1935, usually in a landslide. Bélanger himself has won by large margins in the 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections. He won re-election for a seventh term by a reduced margin with 38.2% of the vote in the May 2011 election. As member of Parliament, Bélanger has served as Chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, member of the Standing Committee on the Library of Parliament and member of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Urban Issues. From July 1998 to August 2000, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage. In December 2003, he was appointed Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Chief Government Whip. Ottawa Area MPs January 25, 2016 Nepean Party Name Contact #’s Web Site Notes Liberal Chandra Arya Tel: 613-992-1325 New riding Fax: 613-992-1336 2011- 27% Email: [email protected] 2015 – 52% (+25%) Address: 240 Kennevale Drive (Main Office) Suite 201 Nepean, Ontario K2J 6B6 Telephone: Fax: Profile: During the last three years, he served on the board of Invest Ottawa – an economic development agency established with the mandate of making Ottawa the best place in Canada to start and grow a business. During this time, Chandra collaborated closely with Mayor Jim Watson, who serves as Co-Chair of the agency, in addition to other business and community leaders. Chandra has also served on the boards of the OCISO Not-for-Profit Housing Corporation, Ottawa Community Immigrants Services Organization and the Hindu Society of Ottawa Carleton. He previously served as Chair of the Indo-Canada Ottawa Business Chamber, President of the Indo-Canadian Community Centre Inc., and was the founding director of the Federation of Canadian Brazilian Businesses. Chandra has worked as an engineer, industrial banker, entrepreneur, investment advisor, and technology company executive. Chandra was an executive with D-TA Systems Inc., an Ottawa-based manufacturer and exporter of high-end defence technology products. Prior to that role, Chandra worked with CIBC Wood Gundy. He was the publisher of the former Ottawa Star.
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