17 Facts About Kerry Diotte

Kerry Thomas Diotte was born on 1956 and is a Canadian journalist and politician who was the member of Parliament for Edmonton Griesbach from 2015 to 2021 and sat on the Edmonton City Council from 2010 to 2013.

Kerry Diotte ran for mayor of Edmonton in 2013, placing third.

Kerry Diotte was educated at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

Kerry Diotte was employed at the Edmonton Sun from 1985 until October 2009 where he worked as Legislature bureau chief, as well as a copy editor, reporter, and assignment editor.

Kerry Diotte has worked for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation affiliate where he was an on-camera television reporter.

For many years, Kerry Diotte was president of the Edmonton chapter of the Canadian Association of Journalists and a national director of the organization.

Kerry Diotte resigned those positions to campaign for a city council seat in the 2010 Edmonton municipal election.

The panel decided there was "no credible evidence" to suggest Kerry Diotte would drive drunk when leaving the November 18,2004 function and noted the journalist has no criminal record.

On May 16,2013, Kerry Diotte announced his candidacy for the mayoralty of Edmonton.

On February 26,2014, Kerry Diotte announced his intention to seek the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in the new federal riding of Edmonton Griesbach.

Kerry Diotte was a member of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations in the 42nd Parliament.

Kerry Diotte was appointed in September 2018 as a member of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.

Kerry Diotte sponsored private member's Bill C-306, An Act to establish a Crimean Tatar Deportation Memorial Day and to recognize the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 as an act of genocide.

Kerry Diotte was appointed Deputy Shadow Minister for Public Services and Procurement in Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer's shadow cabinet.

On October 28,2020, Kerry Diotte voted in favour of Bill C-6 in the second reading, which proposed amending the Criminal Code to include a ban on conversion therapy.

Kerry Diotte lost his Edmonton-Griesbach seat to the NDP's Blake Desjarlais in the 2021 federal election.

On November 19,2018, Kerry Diotte launched a lawsuit against University of Alberta student publication The Gateway for publishing two articles that the suit deemed "defamatory", objecting to claims that he is racist.