13 Facts About Dean Allison

Dean Allison was born on February 18,1965, in London, Ontario.

Dean Allison holds a degree in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Outside of his capacities as a Member of Parliament, Dean Allison owns a private equity firm that assists in small business and startups.

Dean Allison has served as president of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation, as president of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and board member of Junior Achievement in Niagara.

Dean Allison is a founding member of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in Canada and the Belarus' Children of Chernobyl program that brings children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to Canada.

Dean Allison first ran for federal politics as the Canadian Alliance candidate in the Erie-Lincoln riding in 2000.

Dean Allison ran, and was elected, in the 2004 election as the Conservative candidate for Niagara West-Glanbrook.

Dean Allison has won the subsequent federal elections for Niagara West-Glanbrook.

Since taking office, Dean Allison has served on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, International Trade and as past chair of the Standing Committee on Human Resources Skills Development and Status of Persons with Disabilities and has served on the advisory panel on the Funding of Officers of Parliament.

Dean Allison has served as vice chair of the Ontario Conservative Caucus and been on the executive of the Intraparliamentary Union Association and the Commonwealth Association.

Dean Allison is a director of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly.

Dean Allison has tabled a number of different legislative initiatives in Parliament including a bill aimed at removing the faint hope clause from the Criminal Code, and motions to entrench property rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to raise awareness of Anaphylaxis.

Dean Allison was one of thirteen Canadians banned from traveling to Russia under retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2014.