Roger Gallaway earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and an LL.
17 Facts About Roger Gallaway
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Roger Gallaway practiced law before entering political life, and was involved in a variety of community organizations in the Sarnia area.
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Roger Gallaway was first elected to parliament in the 1993 federal election, defeating Progressive Conservative incumbent Ken James by over 10,000 votes.
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Roger Gallaway was re-elected by similarly large pluralities in the elections of 1997 and 2000, and defeated Conservative candidate Marcel Beaubien by over 5,000 votes in the 2004 election.
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Roger Gallaway was defeated by Conservative Patricia Davidson by over 4,000 votes in the 2006 election.
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Roger Gallaway ran for Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada in 1997, and was eliminated on the second ballot.
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Roger Gallaway was occasionally labeled a maverick MP in the Liberal Party, particularly in later years, and was a vocal opponent of the federal gun registry for many years, and unsuccessfully attempted to cut off funding for the program in late 2004.
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Roger Gallaway has called for government funding to be withdrawn from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and opposed negative option billing by cable companies in the late 1990s.
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Roger Gallaway holds socially conservative views on some issues, although he has not emphasized these as strongly as others within the party, such as Tom Wappel and Rose-Marie Ur.
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Roger Gallaway was an opponent of same-sex marriage and voted against the Civil Marriage Act, which legalized it, in 2005.
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Roger Gallaway is a personal friend and was a frequent political ally of Senator Anne Cools, and has worked with her to propose reforms to Canada's divorce laws which would have ensured greater custody rights for fathers.
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In furtherance of these concerns, Roger Gallaway served as co-chair of the Special Joint Committee on Custody and Access, which recommended shared parenting as the norm in its report, For the Sake of the Children, issued in 1998.
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From December 2003 to July 2004, Roger Gallaway served as parliamentary secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, with special emphasis on democratic reform.
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Roger Gallaway formed the band "True Grit" with several Liberal MPs, including Joe Fontana and future prime minister Jean Chretien.
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Roger Gallaway supported Bob Rae's unsuccessful bid to become leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2006 Liberal leadership election.
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Since leaving politics, Roger Gallaway has served as an instructor in international business law at Lambton College.
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Roger Gallaway has thrown his hat in the ring for the 2010 Point Edward municipal elections, trying to become mayor of the tiny town .