Canada’s Minister of Employment and Social Development, Minister for Multiculturalism, and a member of Parliament’s Canada-Tibet Committee having hosted the Dalai Lama.
First elected to Canadian Parliament in 2000 and has since been re-elected 3 times
Named one of Canada’s “100 Leaders of the Future” by Maclean’s magazine, a “leading conservative activist” by the Globe & Mail, one of “21 Canadians to Watch in the 21st Century” by the Financial Post, and the “Hardest Working MP” in 2011 by Maclean’s.