Chak Au
- Born
- Hong Kong
- Career
- Assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, family therapist
- Political Experience
- Richmond City Councillor (elected in 2011), Metro Vancouver Regional District councillor in 2024, elected to House of Commons in 2025, ran as a British Columbia New Democratic Party candidate in 2017
- Notable
- Immigrated to Canada in 1988. Decided to keep holding his municipal office after being elected federally, donating his municipal salary to charity. Combined salary from both positions put him as the second highest paid federal parliamentarian.
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Business & Financial Interests
Chak Au is a long-serving city councillor for the City of Richmond, British Columbia. Before and during his time in municipal politics, he reportedly worked as a program manager for S.U.C.C.E.S.S., a non-profit social services agency that assists new immigrants.
Public Controversies
In his role as a Richmond city councillor, Chak Au has been involved in public debates that received media attention. In early 2024, he was a central figure in the controversy over a proposal for a supervised consumption site in Richmond. His motion to explore the possibility of a site at the local hospital sparked widespread protests and intense public debate before the motion was ultimately defeated by council. He has also been involved in local discussions regarding foreign ownership of property and Chinese-only signage in the city.
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Madam Speaker, the government is known for its intention, its seeking of power and its expansion of its power. Therefore, I suppose that through shutting down this debate, the government wants to have more power, and it wants to do what it wants to do without really caring about the different views being expressed by the public and by professionals.
C‑22 Madam Speaker, I rise today to express serious concerns with part 2 of Billand to oppose the motion in Government Business No. 13. Let me be clear from the outset: Conservatives believe that law enforcement must have modern tools to combat organized crime, fentanyl trafficking, child exploitation, terrorism and foreign interference in a digital age. These types of rampant criminality cannot
C‑289, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make a related amendment to the Criminal Code moved for leave to introduce Bill. He said: Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce my first private member's bill, the stopping supply to save lives act. I hope Canadians will come to know this as Emmy's legacy, in memory of Emmy Liu, a 14-year-old girl who lost her life to a fentanyl
Madam Chair, I have to point out that we cannot replace necessity with convenience. It may be convenient for the government to shut down debate in the name of urgency or in the name of saving time. As I mentioned, with a bill that is so complex and sometimes difficult to understand thoroughly, we need the time to do thorough work. It is necessary. It is not just for the sake of convenience that
Madam Speaker, with a bill that is so complex and complicated, we need time to understand it thoroughly and assess each portion of the bill so that we can address the concerns being raised and the questions being asked by the public and by professionals. I want to ask whether the member on the other side agrees that it is not democratic that we had not even had the chance to start debating
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Yes. I think, also, at the hearing, a key question was asked, which was this: Should a person have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding subscriber information linking an IP address to their identity? I think the Supreme Court's ruling was yes, right? The Supreme Court felt there should be a reasonable expectation of privacy for subscriber information.