1. Pat Martin was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015, representing the riding of Winnipeg Centre for the New Democratic Party.
18 Facts About Pat Martin
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Pat Martin worked as a journeyman carpenter for several years, and was employed in forest service, mines and construction.
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Pat Martin has been a member of the executive of the Manitoba Building Trades Council, and was part of the Winnipeg 2000 Economic Development Committee.
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Pat Martin was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1997 federal election, defeating Liberal incumbent David Walker by a margin of 10,979 votes to 9,895.
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Pat Martin was re-elected in the 2000 federal election, defeating Liberal Kevin Lamoureux by 11,263 votes to 9,310.
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Pat Martin increased his margin of victory in the 2004 election, defeating Liberal candidate David Northcott by about 3,000 votes.
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Pat Martin called for Svend Robinson to be removed from the NDP's foreign affairs portfolio in 2002, after Robinson's controversial visit to the Palestinian Authority.
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Pat Martin is an outspoken critic of the Canadian monarchy, both in parliament and in the media, citing the marriage of the Prince of Wales to the Duchess of Cornwall as a reason to abolish the institution.
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When Liberal leadership candidate Joe Volpe received donations totalling $108,000 from Apotex executives and their wives and children, Pat Martin suggested that these donations had the appearance of fraud.
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In June 2008, Pat Martin introduced a motion into the House of Commons calling on the government to amend the royal arms of Canada to incorporate symbols representing Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.
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Pat Martin introduced a private member's bill, C-248, in parliament to exonerate Louis Riel On May 5,2011 at the Royal Ontario Museum Pat Martin debated Tom Flanagan on the topic "Louis Riel deserved to Hang".
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On February 5,2015, Pat Martin stated that he would file a lawsuit against anyone who claimed he lived on Salt Spring Island.
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Pat Martin owns a hobby farm on Salt Spring Island that he bought with his former wife and currently resides in Osborne Village in the riding of Winnipeg South Centre.
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Pat Martin ended up settling the defamation lawsuit against him and publicly apologized and stated that Racknine was "merely an innocent intermediary not a participant in electoral fraud".
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Documents filed with the federal ethics commissioner showed Pat Martin accepted contributions to a legal defence fund from the Canadian Labour Congress, the United Steelworkers and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and 14 other unions or locals.
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Duff Conacher, founder of Democracy Watch, asked Pat Martin to disclose the exact amount each of the two dozen organizations has donated to the trust fund set up to pay off his legal bill.
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Pat Martin called Robert-Falcon Ouellette, the Liberal candidate, "full of shit" and a "political slut" for considering other parties before choosing to run for the Liberals.
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Pat Martin then targeted Ouellette's wife and accused her of being afraid to venture into the riding because of fear of theft.