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).
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May 18, 2016
Published in the Ottawa Citizen. Last December, when he was asked about how he’d fulfil his election promise that “2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system,” Justin Trudeau responded that his government would engage in what he characterized as “strong consultations.” So far, this has turned out to mean seven months of delay,…
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May 10, 2016
Resources from the Office of Scott Reid, M.P.: Announcement of Constituency Referendum #7 (News release) PDF version of Scott Reid’s mail-out — Constituency Referendum #7 Results of Constituency Referendum #7 (News Release) Supreme Court of Canada ruling: Carter v. Canada — February 6, 2015 Parliamentary resources: Bill C-14 (as introduced by the government at 1st Reading) Report of the Special…
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January 6, 2016
Electoral reform must go to a referendum SCOTT REID, MP Ottawa Citizen Published on: December 28, 2015 On Oct. 19, the Liberals were elected on a platform that included dozens of promises, including more than 30 on various aspects of democratic reform. One of these was the dramatic but vague promise that 2015 would be “the last election conducted…
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December 21, 2015
I have served continuously as a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (otherwise known by its parliamentary acronym “PROC”) since 2004, and before that as a member of one of its sub-committees from 2002—almost the entire time since I was first elected in 2000. It is the House of Commons committee where…
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December 9, 2015
With the start of the 42nd Parliament, the issue of electoral reform is back in the news. But it’s not the first time the issue has been on the agenda. Twice, in 2001 and in 2005, I was invited to give my views on how to get from “here” (first-past-the-post) to “there” (some new electoral system). In 2001,…
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December 1, 2015
The 1929 “Persons Case”, in which the courts ruled that women ought to be regarded as “eligible persons” for the purposes of Senate appointments, has assumed such legendary proportions in Canada that it is commemorated by a statue on Parliament Hill. My feelings about this mythology are mixed, as I explain in the accompanying short editorial (first published as an op-ed in…
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October 9, 2014
I first published this article in October, 2001, in the public policy journal, Policy Options. The recent re-emergence of marijuana legalization as a policy issue has prompted me to republish it here. The original title was, simply, “Should We End Prohibition?” – Scott Reid, October 9, 2014.
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April 4, 2013
A suggested change to the boundaries between the proposed new riding of Lanark – Frontenac and Kingston & The Islands.
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