Michelle Rempel Garner
- Born
- February 14, 1980 — Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Education
- Degree in economics at the University of Manitoba
- Career
- Director of the University of Calgary's Institutional Programs Division; technology commercialization division of the University of Manitoba
- Political Experience
- President of the Conservative Party riding executive for Calgary—Nose Hill; MP for Calgary Centre-North (2011); Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification
- Notable
- Named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2010; one of Calgary's Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue magazine in 2014; selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders in 2016.
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Business & Financial Interests
Before being elected to Parliament, Michelle Rempel Garner was the director of the technology commercialization office at the University of Calgary. She holds a degree in economics. According to her public disclosures to the Ethics Commissioner, she has held various assets, including publicly traded securities and a rental property in Calgary.
Key Relationships & Connections
Rempel Garner was appointed as a minister of state by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was a key figure in her early political career. She is often identified with the progressive wing of the Conservative Party and is considered a political ally of figures like former interim leader Rona Ambrose. She is married to Jeff Garner, an American military veteran.
Public Controversies
In 2020, Rempel Garner faced media scrutiny for travelling to her home in Oklahoma during the COVID-19 pandemic. She stated the travel was for an essential personal matter related to her family. She has also been a prominent voice against online harassment and abuse directed at politicians, often publicizing threats she has received. In 2018, she was reportedly removed from a parliamentary committee by then-leader Andrew Scheer following a public dispute with a fellow Conservative MP over a report. In 2022, she publicly explored a bid for the leadership of Alberta's United Conservative Party but ultimately decided not to enter the race, citing concerns about the party's stability.
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Michelle Rempel Garner won with 36,597 votes (59.4%)
Total votes cast: 61,592
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justice minister Mr. Speaker, the minister is right. There is not anything in the Criminal Code. That is why we put forward a bill to put something in the Criminal Code to stop this. When she had an opportunity to sway theto support the bill, the man who created the massive Liberal dumpster fire that she is perpetuating, she said, “No, it is fine.” Today, the Liberals are defending this abysmal
Mr. Speaker, a non-citizen on a student visa organized major theft from an Alberta store not once, but 14 times. They were convicted of a major crime under Canada's Criminal Code, which carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison. They should have been deported, as the law requires, but today we found out that they were not. The National Post reported that a judge gave them a sweetheart
Mr. Speaker, the minister just said that the program is temporary. That is what it was designed to be, but the PBO said today that failed asylum claimants, people who are supposed to be removed from the country, are getting benefits like vision care and physiotherapy for years. That is why the cost is mushrooming year after year. A billion dollars could build a hospital. Instead, it is going to
Mr. Speaker, I do not think the Liberals understand ho w profoundly unfair the system is right now, to everybody. The Liberals brought too many non-citizens into Canada too fast for health care to keep up, and millions of Canadians are waiting for basic medical services. Today, the PBO showed that there are 74,000 failed asylum seekers, people who have bogus asylum claims, who are getting
Mr. Speaker, I am going to take that as a “No, I cannot do my job and will not show up for work for four hours.” I understand why the minister does not want to show up for four hours. In the last two weeks alone, there have been multiple cases of sweetheart deals for non-citizens convicted of serious crimes. Terrorists are still in Canada, and money is being poured into refugee hotels. I will
Mr. Speaker, I do not know about others, but I think it is a little condescending that the Minister of Transport gets up to answer the questions that were directed toward the Minister of Immigration. I will say this: It is absolutely mind-boggling that the person in charge of one of the most critical files in government, who gets paid $300,000 and has a taxpayer-funded driver, cannot even be
finance minister Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, the Minister of Immigration is supposed to show up for four hours to be held to account for her decisions during the committee of the whole, but she has not confirmed that she will attend or that she will answer questions for the full four hours, as her colleague, the, did. I understand that she is scared to be held to account for the
Prime Minister minister Mr. Speaker, theclaims that he has taken back control of the immigration system, but that is kind of hard to believe. In the past year, his government has let in hundreds of thousands of new temporary foreign workers while Canadians cannot find jobs. They have no way of tracking whether millions of non-citizens on expired or expiring visas will leave. Now the government is
Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, theclaims to have taken back control of the immigration system, but that is really hard to believe. That is because in the past year, the Prime Minister has allowed the government to let in hundreds of thousands of new non-citizen temporary foreign workers while Canadian kids cannot find jobs or a place to rent. The Liberals have allowed massive, scandalous fraud to