Kelly McCauley
- Born
- June 23, 1964 — Vancouver
- Education
- BCIT, Hospitality Management program
- Career
- Hospitality executive with over thirty years experience managing hotels and convention centres
- Political Experience
- Elected to represent the riding of Edmonton West in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. Chair of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates since 2018.
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Business & Financial Interests
Before entering politics, Kelly McCauley had a career in the hospitality industry. He reportedly worked for over 30 years in this sector, holding senior management positions with Coast Hotels and Resorts. He also owned and operated a consulting firm that provided services to hotels and tourism businesses.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
In 2017, the federal Ethics Commissioner investigated Kelly McCauley after he wrote a letter on his MP letterhead to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in support of a company's application. The company was reportedly a client of a communications firm owned by his wife. The Commissioner's report concluded that McCauley had used his position to improperly further another person's private interests and breached the conflict of interest code for MPs. He was ordered to pay a penalty. Around the same time, McCauley was also among a group of MPs who faced public scrutiny for hiring family members. He reportedly employed his wife in his constituency office. While this was permitted under the rules at the time, the practice was controversial and the rules were later changed to prohibit it.
Public Controversies
In May 2021, during a House of Commons committee meeting, McCauley was criticized for comments he made to Liberal MP Hedy Fry. While Fry was speaking, McCauley reportedly asked if she was having trouble reading her notes. The remarks were viewed by some as disrespectful and ageist. McCauley later issued an apology for his comments.
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C-39 Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise on Bill, another cynical Liberal bill. Do members remember years back when the Liberal government campaigned to end all government practice of using omnibus bills to reduce scrutiny of legislative measures? This was part of their campaign for a “real change” plan for restoring democracy. What do we have here? We have another massive omnibus bill, one of
C-69 C-48 Mr. Speaker, there is a very simple solution: get rid of Bill, the “no new pipelines” bill, and get rid of Bill, which bans Alberta oil off the northern B.C. coast. These two pieces of government legislation are responsible for the killing of more investment in this country than anything else Trudeau or anyone else in the government could have thought of.
Mr. Speaker, I quite enjoy working with my hon. colleague on the operations committee. I think we have a mutual respect for each other. The legislation clearly proposes a one-year approval period, but it would not be one year as, perhaps, the government is pretending or creating propaganda about. It would be one year after the approval process gets through, and the minister could still step in
Mr. Speaker, the member opposite was very vocal not too long ago about imposing an oil and gas cap on Canada. I wonder if he still supports that and if he supports the planned pipeline through B.C. to the B.C. coast.
Mr. Speaker, I do not have a lot of faith in this process the government is creating. There would be too much power in the hands of the minister and too much power with the bureaucrats. Part of the bill, and I wish I had more time to get to it, is changes to the Labour Code, wherein an adjudicator appointed by the government would decide or help to decide whether to end a labour issue, not the
C-39 C-69 C-48 Mr. Speaker, the Liberals talk about building things faster with Bill. Why not get rid of the “no new pipelines” bill that was deemed mostly unconstitutional, Bill, and get rid of the anti-Alberta bill, Bill?
Mr. Speaker, the speech by my colleague from Ponoka—Didsbury was excellent. I learned a lot from it. He is a past conservation officer, and I certainly appreciate the points he made. The Liberal government previously stated that there would be no more omnibus bills because they were an undemocratic practice. I am wondering if, considering that the bill is a massive omnibus bill that would change
Mr. Speaker, my colleague brought up a lot of very valid points. One of them, of course, is that there is not a lot of structure. Despite the bill being 250 pages, there are a lot of areas where it would allow the bureaucracy or the ministers to make additional decisions. What is going to be in the national interest? Someone is going to be allowed to extend this magical one-year permit timeline
Okay. Minister of Public Safety They constantly state publicly that they will add 1,000 officers. Have you ever contradicted that or spoken to theand said, “Wait a moment. That's different from my mandate”?
Mine is intermittent.
Will those be net bodies added?
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I'm sorry. Let's back up. Of the 750, are those contract workers and the specialized personnel, or are they purely...?
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Commissioner, walk me through this discrepancy between the figure of 1,000 new officers that has been repeatedly stated and what you were saying earlier. Minister after minister has said it would be 1,000 new officers. You were saying that it will be 750, but of those, 350 are going to be internal transfers from contract to specialized. Did I hear that right?
How did you not hear it? It's probably been stated about 20 or 30 times by senior ministers, including your boss, in the House.
You're 2,700 short, you're transferring 300 or 400 from within and you're hiring 300 net new, maybe. How long is it going to take you to get up to the operational standards required?