Tomasz Kmiec is a Polish-Canadian politician who serves as the Member of Parliament for Calgary Shepard in the House of Commons of Canada under the Conservative Party of Canada.
31 Facts About Tom Kmiec
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Tom Kmiec currently serves as Shadow Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees.
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Tom Kmiec's family immigrated to Canada and settled in Quebec.
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Tom Kmiec is, hence, fluently bilingual in both of Canada's official languages.
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Tom Kmiec is raising his three children, Maximillian, Jolie, and Enoch.
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Tom Kmiec graduated from Concordia University in Montreal with a bachelor's degree in Political Science.
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Tom Kmiec then received his master's degree in American Government with a concentration in Terrorism and Homeland Security from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
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Tom Kmiec started his career as an intern in the office of then Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Stephen Harper.
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Tom Kmiec has since worked for cabinet ministers federally and provincially in Alberta.
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Tom Kmiec was elected in the 2015 Canadian federal election for the riding of Calgary Shepard.
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Tom Kmiec has served on the Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee, and the Finance Committee.
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On September 18,2017, Tom Kmiec was moved from his role as Deputy Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Deputy Shadow Minister for Finance.
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Tom Kmiec was named deputy critic for foreign affairs for the Conservative Party of Canada on October 16,2016, in a shadow cabinet shuffle by Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose.
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On December 2nd, 2021, Tom Kmiec was elected as Chair of Public Accounts Committee.
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Under Candice Bergen, former Interim Conservative Leader, Tom Kmiec was named Deputy House Leader, Co-Chair of Question Period Planning and Shadow Minister of Democratic Reform.
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Under current Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Tom Kmiec serves as the Shadow Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
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In 2016, Tom Kmiec was in agreement with the change to O Canada after polling his riding, he voted in line with his constituents.
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Tom Kmiec has been identified by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada as a Member of Parliament with an anti-abortion stance.
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On November 22,2021, Tom Kmiec tabled Bill C-211, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code, which would have expanded unpaid bereavement leave for parents.
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On June 22,2021, Tom Kmiec was one of 63 MPs to vote against Bill C-6 An Act to amend the Criminal Code.
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In October 2020, Tom Kmiec published a statement regarding the contents of Bill C-6.
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Tom Kmiec has been vocal in questioning the Liberal government's mortgage lending rules and increases to mortgage insurance fees charged by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
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Tom Kmiec has repeatedly called for a full parliamentary review of the B-20 Mortgage Stress Test, that was introduced by the Liberal government in January 2018.
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Tom Kmiec has published a series of articles on the topic and has moved two motions at Parliament's finance committee asking for a study of the mortgage lending rules.
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Tom Kmiec is an advocate for Canada to support the minority Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang region, who are being targeted for their religious beliefs and detained in internment camps.
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Tom Kmiec has urged the CPPIB to divest their holdings in these companies.
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Tom Kmiec supported Canada's Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, created in response to the death lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was beaten to death in Russian custody.
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Tom Kmiec created the "Parliamentary Friends of the Kurds", a parliamentary group aimed at establishing dialogue between Canadian and Kurdish lawmakers and fostering positive relations between Canada and the Kurdistan Region.
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Tom Kmiec was the first Parliamentarian to unearth the Liberal government's $256 million pledge to the China-controlled Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which was hidden inside the Liberal government's 2017 omnibus budget, Bill C-63.
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Tom Kmiec criticized the Liberals' decision to gift $256 million to the AIIB, which is funding the construction of three new energy pipelines in Asia while the Liberal government opposes and stalls the construction of energy pipelines in Canada.
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Tom Kmiec called on the Liberal government to cancel Canada's participation in the AIIB through a series of motions at parliament's finance committee, but the Liberal MPs on the committee voted down the motions.