20 Facts About Peter Stoffer

Peter Stoffer is a grassroots politician who is a strong advocate for Canadian military veterans and their service needs.

Peter Stoffer has been an advocate of Third Way policies championed by Tony Blair.

Peter Stoffer was affiliated with the internal party reform group NDProgress that successfully pushed the NDP to adopt a 'one member, one vote' system to choose its leader, and which has called for limits on union influence within the party.

Peter Stoffer was alleged to have attempted to force kisses on a staffer in 2006 and 2009, in allegations made public in 2018.

Peter Stoffer was born in Heerlen, Netherlands in 1956 and emigrated with his family to Canada the same year.

Peter Stoffer's father worked in the coal mines, but after the mines closed down in 1956, Stoffer's family decided to move to Canada.

Peter Stoffer's father became a mail carrier, his mother was a nurse and later they ran a group home for disabled youth.

Peter Stoffer is a former airline customer service agent and active union member who was vocal on environmental issues.

Peter Stoffer was the only Nova Scotia NDP Member of Parliament elected in 1997 to have retained his seat, other than McDonough.

Days before the leadership convention, Peter Stoffer let it be known to the media that his second ballot intention was to move to support Manitoba MP Bill Blaikie.

Peter Stoffer has been critical of MPs who cross the floor and has repeatedly introduced a private member's bill banning floor-crossing by Members of Parliament.

Peter Stoffer's proposal, requiring MPs who leave their party to either resign and contest a by-election or sit as independents, was included in a list of demands issued by NDP leader Jack Layton in October 2005, in exchange for continued NDP support of the Liberal minority government.

In 2006 Peter Stoffer withdrew his own private member's bill aimed at preserving Canada's neglected heritage lighthouses, in order to support similar legislation, Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act introduced by Conservative Senator Pat Carney.

Peter Stoffer was more than 16,000 votes ahead of the candidate in second place.

Peter Stoffer apologized to Anders the next day, calling his comments unparliamentary.

In 2013, Peter Stoffer was named Canada's Parliamentarian of the Year by his peers in the seventh annual survey of Canada's 305 sitting Members of Parliament conducted by Ipsos Reid on behalf of Maclean's in partnership with Historica Canada and L'Actualite, and is designed to honour the public service of Canada's parliamentarians.

In January 2015, Peter Stoffer declared his support for a Maritime Union of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, saying that a union would lower the cost of government services by standardizing laws and regulations.

Peter Stoffer is a former critic for Fisheries and Oceans, Shipbuilding, Seniors, Amateur Sport, Canada Post Corporation, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, and National Defence.

Peter Stoffer was defeated in the 2015 election as the Liberal party swept all the Atlantic Canada ridings.

On May 6,2015, Peter Stoffer was invested by the Dutch as a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.