Scott Reid is the Member of Parliament for Lanark-Frontenac. He was first elected in November 2000.
Scott was elected chairman of the Conservative parliamentary caucus in November, 2021. He 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).
Ottawa – Local MP Scott Reid has signed on to the Conservative Party’s petition to receive “Intervenor Status” in a Montana court in order to overturn a court injunction that has prevented the US border from re-opening to exports of live Canadian cattle. On March 4, 2005-only days before the scheduled full opening of the U.S. border to Canadian…
Ottawa – Local MP Scott Reid today asked the Minister to intervene in a very serious matter in Napanee. The CN Rail Bridge located on the southeast side of town is literally falling apart. When he was in Napanee last week he stopped by the site at the request of a constituent and he picked up several of the…
OTTAWA – Local MP Scott Reid (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington) fulfilled another of the eight promises he made on Election night, last June 24, 2004. Bills and Motions put forward by members have to follow strict guidelines when they are being introduced into the House. The Order of Precedence is the agenda which dictates which pieces of legislation will be…
OTTAWA – Local MP Scott Reid (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington) today called on the international community to apply pressure to stop Zimbabwe’s human rights abuses. Mr. Reid made the following statement in the House of Commons today: Mr. Speaker, leading up to the recent rigged elections, Zimbabwe was the international community’s cause du jour. Now the elections are over, Robert…
Ottawa – Local MP Scott Reid and other MPs on the powerful Procedures & House Affairs Committee of the House of Commons yesterday approved a Bill to block the $15,250 MP pay raise proposed last autumn by the Liberal Government of Prime Minister Paul Martin. Under the new law proposed by the committee, MPs will receive only a $200…
OTTAWA-Local MP Scott Reid today announced the process by which he will be consulting with constituents regarding Bill C-38 (the Civil Marriage Act, which defines marriage as “the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others”). “In the 2004 election, I made a promise to the voters of this riding that I would consult them on…
JOHNSTOWN (ONTARIO) – Scott Reid, MP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington was joined by two of his colleagues Gord Brown, MP (Leeds-Grenville) and Opposition Agriculture Critic Diane Finley, MP (Haldimand-Norfolk) today at a rally held by Ontario farmers, sawmill operators, campground owners, rural landowners and other rural stakeholders who are battling both the Provincial and Federal governments over property rights,…
OTTAWA – On his first day back in the House of Commons Scott Reid, MP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington made the following statement in Parliament: “Mr. Speaker, Last week, the world paused to remember the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. About 1.5 million people were murdered at Auschwitz. Those deemed to be too weak to work were…
OTTAWA – Scott Reid, MP (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington), Tenzin Dargyal, Director (Canada Tibet Committee) and Bloc MP Roger Clavet (Louis-Hébert) met on the on the eve of Paul Martin’s first visit to China as Prime Minister, to call on the PM to raise the issue of Tibet when he meets with the Chinese leadership next week. Along with letters…
CARLETON PLACE – Scott Reid, MP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington commented on the release of the Ipsos-Reid poll released earlier today: 84% of Canadians believe that treatment for Autism should be included in Medicare. According to today’s Ipsos-Reid poll, 84% of Canadians said that while not obligated to cover this healthcare cost, their province should do so anyways. The…
Scott Reid is the Member of Parliament for Lanark-Frontenac. He was first elected in November 2000.
Scott was elected chairman of the Conservative parliamentary caucus in November, 2021. He 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).
