14 Facts About Ed Fast

Ed Fast was elected in 1985 and served two terms as an Abbotsford School Board Trustee.

Ed Fast was elected to Abbotsford City Council in 1996 and served for three 3-year terms.

Ed Fast served as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and as a member of the Copyright Modernization Committee.

In May 2009, Ed Fast introduced a motion in the House of Commons to rename the Huntingdon border crossing to "Abbotsford-Huntingdon Port of Entry".

Ed Fast oversaw the negotiations for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union, which some saw as a giveaway to big pharma.

Ed Fast was responsible for the Canada-China Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments Agreement, which was signed in 2012 and came into force on 1 October 2014.

In November 2013, Ed Fast announced the Government of Canada's Global Markets Action Plan, a plan focusing on "Canada's core strengths in priority markets through bold trade policy and vigorous trade promotion".

Ed Fast released Canada's first International Education Strategy, a part of the Global Markets Action Plan, in order to attract international talent.

On 9 April 2014, rising on a point of order, New Democratic Party MP Dan Harris accused Fast of making a gun gesture and saying "boom" in the direction of another New Democrat, Niki Ashton, during Question Period.

Ed Fast denied the claim and asserted that he was pointing in the direction of Andrew Scheer, the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Video from the House of Commons shows Ed Fast making a pointing gesture.

Ed Fast replaced Pierre Poilievre who became critic for Jobs and Industry.

Ed Fast was for a brief time a member of the Industry and Technology committee, before he was appointed on 28 February 2022 by new interim CPC leader Candice Bergen to the Finance committee.

Ed Fast resigned as Shadow Finance Minister after criticizing Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre's plan to fire Bank of Canada director Tiff Macklem, if elected.