Matthew Green (Canadian politician)
Matthew Green MP (born September 10, 1980)[2][3] is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Hamilton Centre in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election, and re-elected in 2021.
Matthew Green | |
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 Green in 2014 | |
| Member of Parliament for Hamilton Centre | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | David Christopherson |
| Hamilton, Ontario City Councillor | |
| In office December 1, 2014 – December 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Morrow |
| Succeeded by | Nrinder Nann |
| Constituency | Ward 3 (Hamilton Centre) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 10, 1980 |
| Political party | New Democratic |
| Residence | Hamilton, Ontario[1] |
Early life
Green grew up in Hamilton, and received a degree in political science from Acadia University. He later attended McMaster University in Hamilton.
Career
First elected to the Hamilton City Council in 2014, he led the way for the city to become the first in Ontario to license and regulate payday lending.[4] In 2018, he became the executive director of the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI), a non-profit organization that promotes racial equality.[5]
Green has stated that the example set by Lincoln Alexander, the first Black Canadian MP, helped inspire him to get into politics. Green joined the NDP in 2017 after being inspired by Jagmeet Singh's stance against racial profiling.[6]
Prior to his election to the House of Commons, he was the first Black Canadian to serve on the Hamilton City Council, where he represented Ward 3 from 2014 to 2018.[7][6] Ideologically, Green identifies as a "Stanley Knowles New Democrat".[8]
In 43rd Canadian Parliament
One of Green's claims to fame is that he is the first Black Canadian to represent Hamilton in parliament since Lincoln Alexander.[6]
As a member of parliament, Green has been an outspoken opponent of police brutality, and has endorsed a nationwide ban on the use of tear gas.[9]
In 44th Canadian Parliament
Green was re-elected on 20 September 2021 in the 2021 Canadian federal election to a Hung parliament,[10] its 44th Canadian Parliament.
In an October 2021 interview with American socialist magazine Jacobin, Green endorsed a national wealth tax.[8]
In March 2022 he was nominated by the leader of his party to serve on the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency which had the mission to investigate the Freedom Convoy.[11][12][13]
On the DECD Committee
Early on in the life of the DECD committee Green said that committee members "have a 'responsibility' to work together" in light of the disagreement of the Official Opposition over the constitution of the committee. It consisted of seven MPs and four senators. On 6 March 2022 co-chair Green was "interested in looking at the actions of police (or the lack of them), the role played by 'dark money' raised through" the GoFundMe and GiveSendGo crowdfunding platforms,[12] even though the latter issue had been thoroughly debunked three days earlier when the FINA committee interviewed two executives from GoFundMe who testified that 86 per cent of the donors to the original GoFundMe campaign were Canadian, and 88 per cent of the donated funds to the original campaign were from Canadians.[14]
Electoral record
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Hamilton Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Matthew Green | 20,105 | 48.7 | +2.54 | ||||
| Liberal | Margaret Bennett | 10,941 | 26.5 | -2.17 | ||||
| Conservative | Fabian Grenning | 6,209 | 15.0 | +0.63 | ||||
| People's | Kevin Barber | 2,637 | 6.4 | +4.51 | ||||
| Green | Avra Caroline Weinstein | 1,105 | 2.7 | -4.94 | ||||
| Communist | Nigel Cheriyan | 184 | 0.4 | – | ||||
| Independent | Nathalie Xian Yi Yan | 99 | 0.2 | +0.01 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 44,122 | 99.09 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 351 | 0.84 | -0.07 | |||||
| Turnout | 41,631 | 56.39 | -2.69 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 73,832 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | +2.66 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[15] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Hamilton Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Matthew Green | 20,368 | 46.16 | +0.60 | $71,015.33 | |||
| Liberal | Jasper Kujavsky | 12,651 | 28.67 | -4.72 | $79,469.65 | |||
| Conservative | Monica Ciriello | 6,341 | 14.37 | -0.28 | $13,186.90 | |||
| Green | Jason Lopez | 3,370 | 7.64 | +3.31 | none listed | |||
| People's | Melina Mamone | 833 | 1.89 | – | none listed | |||
| Christian Heritage | Gary Duyzer | 182 | 0.41 | – | none listed | |||
| Independent | Tony Lemma | 158 | 0.36 | – | $2,716.24 | |||
| Independent | Edward Graydon | 134 | 0.30 | – | none listed | |||
| Independent | Nathalie Xian Yi Yan | 85 | 0.19 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 44,122 | 99.09 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 405 | 0.91 | +0.26 | |||||
| Turnout | 44,527 | 59.08 | -0.34 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,371 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | +2.66 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[16][17] | ||||||||
| Candidate | Popular vote | Expenditures | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | ||||||||||
| Matthew Green | 2,852 | 40.72% | – | $31,380.20 | ||||||||
| Ralph Agostino | 1,229 | 17.55% | – | $22,900.91 | ||||||||
| Drina Omazic | 825 | 11.78% | – | $27,000.76 | ||||||||
| Mark DiMillo | 525 | 7.50% | −2.63% | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Sean Gibson | 361 | 5.15% | −8.53% | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Tim Simmons | 334 | 4.77% | – | $15,087.14 | ||||||||
| Bob Assadourian | 330 | 4.71% | – | $26,412.29 | ||||||||
| Brian Kelly | 172 | 2.46% | – | $5,670.73 | ||||||||
| Maria Anastasiou | 93 | 1.33% | – | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Byron Wayne Millette | 73 | 1.04% | – | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Eva John | 55 | 0.79% | – | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Carlos Pinho | 51 | 0.73% | – | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Victor Mejia | 42 | 0.60% | – | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Bernie Szajkowski | 41 | 0.59% | – | $0 | ||||||||
| Jol Hess | 21 | 0.30% | – | n/a1 | ||||||||
| Total votes | 7,113 | 29.59% | −1.41 | |||||||||
| Registered voters | 24,035 | 100% | ||||||||||
| 1 These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and are, therefore, ineligible to run in the 2018 Municipal election Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan. Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. | ||||||||||||
| Sources: City of Hamilton, "Nominated Candidates" | ||||||||||||
References
- "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Craggs, Samantha (July 17, 2018). "Matthew Green to run for NDP in Hamilton Centre, aims to replace MP David Christopherson". CBC News. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- @MatthewGreenNDP (8 September 2020). "Thanks for all the (early) 40th Birthday love. It was *almost* a year to the day that I hosted @theJagmeetSingh for my @HamCentreNDP campaign office launch on Sept. 10th 2019 (my birthday) So his shout out tonight on my live steam was in advance of my Birthday on Thursday" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "What School Did You Go To?" (PDF). Policy Alternatives. 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Craggs, Samantha (September 26, 2018). "Matthew Green becomes new executive director for civic inclusion centre". Canadian Broadcasting Company.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Hamilton's first Black City Councillor Matthew Green is now a Member of Parliament". Ron Fanfair. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
- "Green keeps Hamilton's urban heartland NDP orange". Hamilton Spectator. October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- "Two MPs Reflect on Sixty Years of Canada's New Democratic Party". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
- Jun 11, Jolson Lim Published on; 2020 3:53pm (2020-06-11). "NDP MP Green sponsors petition calling for nationwide ban on use of tear gas". iPolitics. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
- Tasker, John Paul (20 September 2021). "Canadians have re-elected a Liberal minority government". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- "COMMITTEES DEDC Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- Wherry, Aaron (6 March 2022). "The committee reviewing Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act faces a daunting task". CBC.
- Boutilier, Alex (24 March 2022). "Committee examining Liberals' emergency powers debates scope of inquiry". Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
- Turnbull, Sarah (2022-03-03). "GoFundMe head testifies over Freedom Convoy fundraising, says most donors were Canadian". CTVNews. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- "September 20, 2021 General Election Election Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved December 5, 2021.
- "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 14, 2021.