Scott Reid is the Member of Parliament for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston. He was first elected in November 2000.
He has previously served as the Shadow Minister (or opposition critic) for Democratic Institutions (2015-2018), Deputy Opposition House Leader (2015-2016), and Deputy Government House Leader (2006-2015).
He also served as the chairman of the subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (2008-2015).
HERE is a link to remarks I delivered in the House of Commons on 16 October 2023, in which I detailed the nature of my private interest in my family’s business and its relation to the House’s consideration of Bill C-56 and Bill C-352, and explained a set of documents, below, that I submitted to the Clerk of the…
In a 1996 essay, “Penumbras for the People”, I advocated the adoption of a law that would permit Parliament to invoke Section 33 of the Charter of Rights (the so-called “Notwithstanding Clause“, which permits Parliament and the provincial legislatures to re-enact laws that have been struck down by the courts as being in violation of the Charter), only if its…
For a primer on emergency law in Canada, Dr. Craig Forcese and Leah West have made available THIS CHAPTER from their forthcoming book on national security law in Canada. Dr. Forcese, with assistance from Hannah Diegel, is also updating a repository of Canadian COVID-19 emergency orders, both at the federal and provincial levels, HERE. Earlier in the week, I…
As of March 25, 2020, anyone entering Canada is required by law to self-isolate & monitor for signs and symptoms of COVID-19 for 14 days. This order is made under the federal Quarantine Act. You can read the Act, plus debate and other related materials from the most recent substantial update of the Act in 2004-05, here: https://primarydocuments.ca/collection-quarantine-act-sc-2005/. The…
It is worth familiarizing ourselves with the federal Emergencies Act, successor to the War Measures Act, since the federal government may engage its provisions due to COVID-19. Find the Act here, plus debate from when it was enacted: https://primarydocuments.ca/collection-emergencies-act-1988/. Invoking the Emergencies Act allows the federal government to drastically curtail our civil liberties. Parliament would have a crucial oversight…
UPDATE AT 1:24pm, March 24, 2020: If you read my essay below, I make it clear that my objections are completely procedural. I have no objection to the relief measures bill passing today as long as the government provides it to MPs with enough time to read and understand it. The reason the House of Commons is suspended right…
Yesterday, Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez announced that the House of Commons will be recalled to authorize the largest spending package in Canadian history, and that he’d like Parliament to do so by means of an expedited process, in which all of the normal procedural protections are stripped away. Normally any draft legislation can expect to go through the following…
By Scott Reid Member of Parliament for Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston Open the PDF here: On Constituency Referenda —————o0o————— This is the second in a series of essays that I will be publishing, during the course of the 2020 Conservative Party leadership race, with the goal of persuading any and all leadership candidates to borrow what I believe to be intelligent…
By Scott Reid Member of Parliament for Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston Open the PDF here: CONSERVATIVES SHOULD BE LEADING, INSTEAD OF LAGGING, ON DEMOCRACY ISSUES —————o0o————— Like one of the patriarchs in the Book of Genesis, I’ve been around Parliament Hill for a very, very long time. My colleague Cheryl Gallant and I are jointly the longest-serving MPs in the Conservative…
On April 11, 2019, I spoke to Bill C-415 in favour of expunging criminal records for simple cannabis possession. Here is my speech.
Scott Reid is the Member of Parliament for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston. He was first elected in November 2000.
He has previously served as the Shadow Minister (or opposition critic) for Democratic Institutions (2015-2018), Deputy Opposition House Leader (2015-2016), and Deputy Government House Leader (2006-2015).
He also served as the chairman of the subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (2008-2015).
