Sadia Groguhé (born November 9, 1962) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election.^[1] She represents the electoral district of Saint-Lambert as a member of the New Democratic Party.

She was born in Marseille to Algerian parents. She arrived in Canada in 2005 and is the mother of four children. She has a masters degree in psychology and at the time of her election worked as a career counsellor (conseillère d’orientation).^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sadia Groguhé - Parliament of Canada biography

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Paul Dewar MP
Member of the House of Commons of Canada
Incumbent
Assumed office 2006
Preceded by	Ed Broadbent
Constituency	Ottawa Centre
First Vice-President of the Ottawa-Carleton Elementary Teachers' Federation
In office 2004–2006
Personal details
Born	Paul W. Dewar (1963-01-25) January 25, 1963 (age 49) Ottawa, Ontario
Political party	New Democratic Party
Relations	Marion Dewar (mother)
Residence	Ottawa, Ontario
Alma mater	Queen's University Carleton University
Occupation	Labour and social activist, teacher, union officer
Committees	Member, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (2007–present) Member, Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan (2009–2011) Vice-Chair, Standing Joint Committee on Scrutiny of Regulations (2006–2007)
Religion	Christianity
Website	pauldewar.ca

Paul W. Dewar, MP (born January 25, 1963) is a Canadian educator and politician from Ottawa, Ontario. He is the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Ottawa Centre.

Dewar was first elected to the House of Commons in the 2006 federal election. He served as the Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs, until he left the post in October 2011 to run for the leadership of the NDP. Before entering politics he worked as a teacher and was an elected representative of the Ottawa-Carleton Elementary Teachers' Federation.

Background[link]

Paul Dewar was born in Ottawa, Ontario on January 25, 1963 to parents Ken Dewar and former Ottawa mayor and New Democratic Member of Parliament, Marion Dewar.^[1][2] When he was in grade three, Dewar was diagnosed with dyslexia, after his teacher noticed that he was struggling to read and write.^[3] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton University in political science and economics in 1985.^[4]

Not long after he completed his Bachelor of Arts, Dewar embarked on a five-month trip to Nicaragua, where he volunteered as an aid worker.^[2] Following his return to Ottawa, he began working as constituency assistant to Ontario Minister of Health and NDP Member of Provincial Parliament for Ottawa Centre, Evelyn Gigantes.^[2] Dewar served in this position from 1990 to 1995.^{[citation needed]} It was during this time that he met his wife, Julia Sneyd. They later had two children together: Nathaniel and Daniel.^[2]

Dewar attained a Bachelor of Education degree from Queen's University in 1994.^[5] He went on to work as an elementary school teacher at D. Roy Kennedy Public School and as an English teacher at Hopewell Avenue Public School.^[6] His work with students with special needs led Queen's University to award him the A. Lorne Cassidy award.^[3][7]

While working at the schools, Dewar became involved with his union, the Ottawa-Carleton Elementary Teachers' Federation (OCETF; a local of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario). After having served as a member of OCETF Executive and as the chair of their political action committee, he was elected Second Vice-President in 2001 and First Vice-President in 2004. During his time with the union, Dewar played a major role in reviving the OCETF's political action committee and in establishing the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario's Humanity Fund, which provides financial support to various charities doing work in developing countries, such as the Stephen Lewis Foundation. He took a leave of absence from his position with the OCETF in 2006 to run in that year's federal election.^[7][8][9]

In 2002, Dewar organized a Community Forum on Public Education. He has also been actively involved with the Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa, the Partnership for a Pesticide Bylaw, the Old Ottawa East Community Association, and Fair Vote Canada, and he has served on the board of directors of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization.^[10]

Dewar was raised in a Catholic household, but he takes issue with the church's positions on same-sex marriage, birth control, and women's rights. He has been active with First United Church since 2001.^[11]

Politics[link]

Ottawa Centre nomination races[link]

Dewar ran for the New Democratic nomination in Ottawa Centre for the 2004 federal election.^[12] Several weeks after Dewar started his campaign, former NDP leader Ed Broadbent came out of retirement to also seek the nomination.^[2] After Broadbent won, Dewar went on to volunteer for Broadbent's successful campaign in the general election, playing a major role in organizing the NDP election day effort.^{[citation needed]}

In order to care for his ailing wife, Broadbent decided not to seek re-election.^[13] Dewar won the proceeding nomination contest on June 22, 2005 on the first ballot, defeating NDP caucus Research and Communications Director Jamey Heath, who was the riding's candidate in the 1997 election, lawyer and film producer Tiffani Murray, and Ottawa Citizen automotive columnist Shannon Lee Mannion.^[14][15]

Member of Parliament[link]

Dewar speaking at his 2006 election victory party

Dewar won the 2006 election and became an MP.

Dewar was acclaimed on February 12, 2007 as the New Democrats' candidate for the 2008 federal election. He was re-elected on October 14, 2008, by a substantial margin over his closest challenger, Penny Collenette of the Liberal Party.

Since February 5, 2009, Dewar has served as the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity.

In April 2009, Dewar reintroduced legislation to protect Gatineau Park. If passed the act would have provided legislated boundaries for the park, prevented removal of land from the park, created a mechanism for expanding the park, and mandated the National Capital Commission to acquire private lands in the park through a right of first refusal process.^[16] However, he was later criticized in the media for having abandoned his commitments on the park, for supporting the Conservative government’s legislation, and for not attending the committee studying that legislation.^[17][18]

Dewar was re-elected in the 2011 federal election, winning 52% of the popular vote.^[19] The NDP formed the Official Opposition following the election and Dewar was named the Critic for Foreign Affairs.^[20] While acting as foreign affairs critic, Dewar took a position in favour of the UN Arms Trade Treaty not exempting weapons designed for sport or hunting, an exemption that the Canadian government was proposing at international talks. Dewar explained in media interviews that in his view it was important that the UN treaty cover all small arms because of the effects that they have had in conflicts in Africa.^[21]

Candidacy for NDP leadership[link]

Following the death of Jack Layton in August 2011, Dewar was seen as a potential candidate to succeed him as leader.^[22] On October 2, 2011, Dewar announced his candidacy for the leadership of the New Democratic Party.^[23] Dewar was considered to be among the leading candidates in the seven person racing, however his lack of fluency in French was seen as a major obstacle. ^[24][25][26] While internal polling released by his campaign showed he was among the top three candidates and had strong growth potential, on election day he finished fifth out of seven candidates on the first ballot with 7.5% of the vote. Following the first ballot he withdrew his candidacy and did not endorse any other candidates.^[27][28]

Electoral history[link]

Source: Elections Canada

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Paul Dewar

• Leadership campaign website
• Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre website
• Paul Dewar - Parliament of Canada biography
• Ottawa Centre NDP Riding Association website

v t e   Current Members of the House of Commons of Canada Government v t e Conservative Party Harper Ablonczy Adams Adler Aglukkaq Albas Albrecht Alexander Allen Allison Ambler Ambrose Anders Anderson Armstrong Ashfield Aspin Baird Bateman Benoit Bernier Bezan Blaney Block Boughen Braid Breitkreuz G. Brown L. Brown P. Brown Bruinooge Butt Calandra Calkins Cannan Carmichael Carrie Chisu Chong Clarke Clement Daniel Davidson Dechert Del Mastro Devolin Dreeshen Duncan Dykstra Fantino Fast Findlay Finley Flaherty Fletcher Galipeau Gallant Gill Glover Goguen Goodyear Gosal Gourde Grewal Harris Hawn Hayes Hiebert Hillyer Hoback Hoeppner Holder James Jean Kamp Keddy Kenney Kent Kerr Komarnicki Kramp Lake Lauzon Lebel Leef Leitch Lemieux Leung Lizon Lobb Lukiwski Lunney McColeman MacKay MacKenzie McLeod Mayes Merrifield Menegakis Menzies Miller J. Moore R. Moore Nicholson Norlock Obhrai O'Connor Oda Oliver O'Neill-Gordon Opitz Paradis Payne Penashue Poilievre Preston Raitt Rajotte Rathgeber Reid Rempel Richards Rickford Ritz Saxton Scheer Schellenberger Seeback Shea Shipley Shory Smith Sopuck Sorenson Stanton Storseth Strahl Sweet Tilson Toet Toews Trost Trottier Truppe Tweed Uppal Valcourt Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson J. Weston R. Weston Wilks Williamson Wong Woodworth Yelich T. Young W. Young Zimmer Official Opposition v t e New Democratic Party Mulcair Allen Angus Ashton Atamanenko Ayala Aubin Benskin Bevington Blanchette Blanchette-Lamothe Boivin Borg Boulerice Boutin-Sweet Brahmi Brosseau Caron Cash Charlton Chicoine Chisholm Choquette Chow Christopherson Cleary Comartin Côté Crowder Cullen D. Davies L. Davies Day Dewar Dionne Labelle Donnelly Doré Lefebvre Dubé Duncan Dusseault Freeman Garrison Genest Genest-Jourdain Giguère Godin Gravelle Groguhé D. Harris J. Harris Hassainia Hughes Jacob Julian Kellway Larose Lapointe Latendresse Laverdière LeBlanc Leslie Liu Mai Marston Martin Masse Mathyssen Michaud Moore D. Morin I. Morin M-A. Morin M-C. Morin Nantel Nash Nicholls Nunez-Melo Papillon Patry Péclet Perreault Pilon Quach Rafferty Ravignat Raynault Rousseau Saganash Sandhu Savoie Scott Sellah Sims Sitsabaiesan Stewart Stoffer Sullivan Thibeault Toone Tremblay Turmel Third Party v t e Liberal Party Rae Andrews Bélanger Bennett Brison Byrne Casey Coderre Cotler Cuzner Dion Duncan Easter Eyking Foote Fry Garneau Goodale Hsu Karygiannis Lamoureux LeBlanc MacAulay McCallum McGuinty McKay Murray Pacetti Regan Scarpaleggia Sgro Simms St-Denis Trudeau Valeriote Independents v t e Bloc Québécois Plamondon Bellavance Fortin Mourani v t e Green Party May v t e Independent Goldring Hyer 41st Canadian Parliament Vacancies: 1