Kerry-Lynne Findlay
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Kerry-Lynne Donna Findlay PC KC MP (born January 12, 1955) is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament for South Surrey—White Rock since 2019, and previously represented the electoral district of Delta—Richmond East in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015.[1] A member of the Conservative Party, she had served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, Associate Minister of National Defence, and Minister of National Revenue while that party was in power under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay | |
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.jpg) Findlay in 2022 | |
| Chief Opposition Whip | |
| Assumed office September 13, 2023 | |
| Leader | Pierre Poilievre |
| Preceded by | Blaine Calkins |
| Minister of National Revenue | |
| In office July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Gail Shea |
| Succeeded by | Diane Lebouthillier |
| Associate Minister of National Defence | |
| In office February 22, 2013 – July 15, 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Stephen Harper |
| Preceded by | Bernard Valcourt |
| Succeeded by | Julian Fantino |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice | |
| In office May 25, 2011 – February 21, 2013 | |
| Minister | Rob Nicholson |
| Member of Parliament for South Surrey—White Rock | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Gordie Hogg |
| Member of Parliament for Delta—Richmond East | |
| In office May 30, 2011 – August 4, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | John Cummins |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 12, 1955 Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative Party (since 2003) |
| Other political affiliations | Canadian Alliance (before 2003) |
| Spouses | |
| Relatives | Greg Findlay (brother) |
| Residence(s) | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Profession |
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Findlay was born in Ladysmith, British Columbia, and lived in Nanaimo and Victoria; her brother Greg Findlay was a linebacker for the BC Lions Canadian football team.[2] After graduating from Crofton House School in Vancouver, she attended the University of British Columbia, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science in 1975, and a law degree in 1978.[2][3]
She articled at Kowarsky and Company in Vancouver, then worked there as an associate for two years before briefly serving as in-house counsel for the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia.[2] She established her own practice in 1981, then joined Connell Lightbody in 1987 before switching to Watson Goepel Maledy in 1996.[2] During her legal career, Findlay has been active in both the national and B.C. provincial branch of the Canadian Bar Association. She held various positions in that organization including national and provincial chair of the Constitutional Law Section and member of the National Task Force on Canadian Court Reform, and she was acclaimed president of the B.C. Branch for the 1997–1998 term.[2] Findlay was appointed a Queen's Counsel in March 1999 by the Attorney General of British Columbia,[3] and served a five-year term as a Member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal by appointment of the Federal Minister of Justice (2006–2011).[4]
She has also been recognized with the Vancouver YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the category of Management, Professions and Trades (May 2001) and the national Cecilia I. Johnstone Award (2011) that recognizes women who have achieved professional excellence in their field and influenced other women to pursue legal careers, supported other women in career advancement or opened doors for women lawyers in a variety of job settings that historically were closed to them[citation needed].
Formerly a supporter of the federal Liberal Party,[2] Findlay ran in the 2000 federal election as a Canadian Alliance candidate in the riding of Vancouver Quadra,[5] but lost to Liberal candidate Stephen Owen.[6]
She was named the Conservative Party's candidate for Delta—Richmond East in March 2011,[7] and won the seat in that year's federal election.[6] During the 41st Parliament, she served as member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights,[6] and sat on a selection panel to help choose a replacement for Marie Deschamps of Quebec, who retired as puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.[8] She was named Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice in May 2011,[6] and as Associate Minister of National Defence on February 22, 2013.[9] She then served as the Minister of National Revenue from July 15, 2013, until November 4, 2015.[10]
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She contested the reconstituted riding of Delta in the 2015 election, but lost to Liberal candidate Carla Qualtrough.[11] She then ran for the Conservatives in the 2017 South Surrey—White Rock by-election,[12] but was defeated by the Liberal's Gordie Hogg, taking 42.1% of the vote to Hogg's 47.5%.[13]
In a re-match at the 2019 election, Findlay unseated Hogg by taking 42.6% of the vote.[14] She served as shadow minister for Environment and Climate Change from November 2019 to September 2020.[6] She received backlash in August 2020 after retweeting another user's Twitter post trying to connect Chrystia Freeland with George Soros; she deleted the tweet and apologized shortly after.[15] She voted in support of Bill C-233 - an act to amend the Criminal Code (sex-selective abortion), which would make it an indictable or a summary offence for a medical practitioner to knowingly perform an abortion solely on the grounds of the child's genetic sex.[16][non-primary source needed]
She was re-elected in 2021 by defeating Gordie Hogg again,[17] and served as shadow minister for National Defence from November 2021 to October 2022.[6] Following Erin O'Toole's ouster as Conservative leader in February 2022, Findlay announced her intention to run for interim party leader;[18] Candice Bergen was ultimately chosen for the role.[19] On September 13, 2022 Findlay was named Chief Opposition Whip by Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre,[20] becoming the first woman to serve in this role for the Conservatives.[21]
Findlay's volunteer posts, in addition to the Canadian Bar Association, have included chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission,[2] board member of Science World, executive member of the Junior Leagues of Canada, president of Delta Zeta chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta International Fraternity, and honorary counsel for the Chinese Benevolent Association of Canada.[citation needed] In 2016, she was named a Distinguished Citizen by Alpha Gamma Delta.[22]
Findlay was married to lawyer A. Boyd Ferris, with whom she had two children. After Ferris died from a heart attack in 1989, she met actor Brent Chapman.[2][23] The two married in 1993 and had two more daughters together;[2] they also have seven grandchildren.[3] Chapman was elected as the provincial MLA for Surrey South in the 2024 British Columbia general election.[23][24]
| 2021 Canadian federal election: South Surrey—White Rock | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Kerry-Lynne Findlay | 24,158 | 42.5 | +0.6 | $116,336.93 | |||
| Liberal | Gordie Hogg | 22,166 | 39.0 | +2.9 | $106,216.01 | |||
| New Democratic | June Liu | 8,395 | 14.8 | +2.5 | $5,597.59 | |||
| People's | Gary Jensen | 2,186 | 3.8 | +2.3 | $2,520.21 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 56,905 | 99.6 | – | $116,892.25 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 340 | 0.4 | ||||||
| Turnout | 57,245 | 64.7 | -6.7 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 88,048 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -0.6 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[25][26] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: South Surrey—White Rock | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Kerry-Lynne Findlay | 24,310 | 41.9 | -0.24 | $109,768.11 | |||
| Liberal | Gordie Hogg | 21,692 | 37.4 | -10.09 | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Stephen Crozier | 6,716 | 11.6 | +6.72 | none listed | |||
| Green | Beverly Pixie Hobby | 4,458 | 7.7 | +3.58 | none listed | |||
| People's | Joel Poulin | 852 | 1.5 | – | $5,942.36 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 58,028 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 326 | |||||||
| Turnout | 58,354 | 69.4 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 84,138 | |||||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.3 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[27][28] | ||||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, 2017: South Surrey—White Rock | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Gordie Hogg | 14,369 | 47.49 | +6.00 | ||||
| Conservative | Kerry-Lynne Findlay | 12,752 | 42.14 | -1.89 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jonathan Silveira | 1,478 | 4.88 | -5.53 | ||||
| Green | Larry Colero | 1,247 | 4.12 | +0.70 | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Rod Taylor | 238 | 0.79 | |||||
| Libertarian | Donald Wilson | 89 | 0.29 | -0.17 | ||||
| Progressive Canadian | Michael Huenefeld | 86 | 0.28 | +0.09 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 30,259 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 30,259 | 38.13 | -36.60 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 79,359 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.95 | ||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Delta | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Carla Qualtrough | 27,355 | 49.12 | +30.55 | $72,634.16 | |||
| Conservative | Kerry-Lynne Findlay | 18,255 | 32.78 | -15.17 | $174,408.46 | |||
| New Democratic | Jeremy Leveque | 8,311 | 14.92 | -13.13 | $59,352.24 | |||
| Green | Anthony Edward Devellano | 1,768 | 3.17 | -1.57 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 55,689 | 100.00 | $206,935.20 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 200 | 0.36 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 55,889 | 74.47 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,044 | |||||||
| Liberal notional gain from Conservative | Swing | +22.86 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[29][30][31] | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election: Delta—Richmond East | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Kerry-Lynne Findlay | 26,059 | 54.24 | -1.51 | ||||
| New Democratic | Nic Slater | 11,181 | 23.27 | +8.82 | ||||
| Liberal | Alan Beesley | 8,112 | 16.88 | -5.14 | ||||
| Green | Duane Laird | 2,324 | 4.84 | -2.94 | ||||
| Independent | John Shavluk | 220 | 0.46 | – | ||||
| Libertarian | Jeff Monds | 147 | 0.31 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 48,043 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 168 | 0.35 | -0.03 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,211 | 60.39 | +0.39 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 79,831 | – | – | |||||
| 2000 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Quadra | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Stephen Owen | 22,253 | 44.83 | +2.69 | $60,542 | |||
| Alliance | Kerry-Lynne Findlay | 18,613 | 37.50 | +9.91 | $64,240 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Bill Clarke | 4,112 | 8.28 | -8.59 | $12,355 | |||
| New Democratic | Loretta Woodcock | 2,595 | 5.22 | -4.81 | $10,844 | |||
| Green | Doug Warkentin | 1,434 | 2.88 | +0.30 | $16,556 | |||
| Canadian Action | Chris Shaw | 390 | 0.78 | – | $5,683 | |||
| Natural Law | Steven Beck | 126 | 0.25 | -0.22 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Anne Jamieson | 109 | 0.21 | -0.09 | $18 | |||
| Total valid votes | 49,632 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 194 | 0.40 | ||||||
| Turnout | 49,826 | 63.34 | -4.32 | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -3.61 | ||||||
| Change for the Canadian Alliance is based on the Reform Party. | ||||||||
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