Don Davies
 | This biographical article is written like a résumé. (February 2020) |
Don Davies | |
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| New Democratic Party critic for Finance | |
| Assumed office April 5, 2024 | |
| Leader | |
| Member of Parliament for Vancouver Kingsway | |
| Assumed office October 14, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | David Emerson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 16, 1963 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Political party | New Democratic Party |
| Residence(s) | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Alberta |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Don Davies MP (born January 16, 1963) is a Canadian federal member of Parliament (MP) for the New Democratic Party, representing the riding of Vancouver Kingsway since his election in the 2008 federal election. On April 5, 2024, Davies was appointed the NDP critic for Finance.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Davies was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Alberta.[2] After gaining admission to the Alberta Bar, Davies was employed as a researcher at the Alberta Legislature and then executive assistant for policy and communications to Ray Martin, leader of the Official Opposition of Alberta from 1989 to 1991.[2]
Davies and his family moved to Vancouver in 1991. In 1992 he became the director of Legal Services for Teamsters Canada (Local 31), a position he held until his election to the House of Commons in 2008. In this capacity, Davies represented workers and the union at arbitration panels and before both provincial and federal labour tribunals.[2]
Davies also served on numerous public bodies to improve occupational health and safety and deliver more efficient regulatory systems in the transportation sector. He was chair of the Mount Pleasant Parent Advisory Council and serves as secretary-treasurer of the Meridian Cultural Society, providing public space for childcare, church and cultural events.[2]
Davies has been active with many community organizations, including Tools for Peace, Vancouver Co-op Radio, Lawyers for Social Responsibility, La Quena Cooperative, and the Dickens Community Group.[2] He has also been a local hockey coach, and enjoys playing the violin.
A long-time resident of the Kensington neighbourhood in the Vancouver Kingsway riding, Davies is married to Sheryl Palm, a speech language pathologist at Vancouver Children's Hospital. They have three children and a granddaughter.[2]
Federal politics
[edit]Davies was first elected during the 2008 federal election. He received 15,933 votes, winning the riding by almost 3,000 votes over his nearest competitor. Davies was re-elected in the 2011 election, receiving over 50 percent of the votes cast and winning by 10,300 votes over his nearest competitor. In 2015, he was re-elected for his third term, receiving 46 percent of the vote and leading his nearest competitor by over 8,000 votes. Davies was re-elected in the 2019 federal election, obtaining 49 percent of the vote, and leading his nearest competitor by over 11,000 votes. This makes him the longest-serving MP in the history of the Vancouver Kingsway riding and the first MP to ever win the riding four times.[3]
In the 40th Parliament, Davies served as NDP critic for Public Safety and National Security, vice-chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security and deputy critic for Western Diversification. In the 41st Parliament, Davies served as Official Opposition critic for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and vice-chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and then as Official Opposition critic for International Trade, deputy critic for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and vice-chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade.[2] A member of a number of parliamentary groups, he serves on the executives of the Canada–China, Canada–Philippines, and Canada–Europe Parliamentary Associations, and is a Canadian parliamentary delegate to the Council of Europe.[2]
In the 42nd Parliament, Davies introduced more private member's legislation than any other MP in Canada.[4] This legislation included bills to establish universal pharmacare, a national school nutrition program, and free tuition for students with diverse needs. In the 43rd Parliament, Davies was re-appointed to the Health portfolio. He serves on the Standing Committee on Health and was appointed to the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians. Davies maintained a stance against the extradition of Meng Wanzhou since her arrest in Vancouver in 2018, claiming political interference in the case by U.S. president Donald Trump.[5][6]
Electoral record
[edit]| 2021 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Kingsway | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Don Davies | 20,994 | 52.28 | +3.19 | $101,431.44 | |||
| Liberal | Virginia Bremner | 11,022 | 27.45 | +4.37 | $47,586.74 | |||
| Conservative | Carson Binda | 5,456 | 13.59 | −6.35 | $7,752.14 | |||
| Green | Farrukh Chishtie | 1,575 | 3.92 | −2.14 | $295.30 | |||
| People's | Jeremy MacKenzie | 868 | 2.16 | +1.19 | $2,013.80 | |||
| Communist | Kimball Cariou | 175 | 0.44 | −0.22 | $0.00 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Donna Petersen | 68 | 0.17 | −0.04 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 40,158 | 99.20 | – | $108,601.94 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 324 | 0.80 | ||||||
| Turnout | 40,482 | 54.07 | −4.6 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 74,873 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Kingsway | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Don Davies | 21,680 | 49.09 | +3.35 | $96,884.11 | |||
| Liberal | Tamara Taggart | 10,194 | 23.08 | −4.73 | $96,618.31 | |||
| Conservative | Helen Quan | 8,804 | 19.94 | −1.08 | none listed | |||
| Green | Lawrence Taylor | 2,675 | 6.06 | +2.81 | none listed | |||
| People's | Ian Torn | 427 | 0.97 | – | $3,869.88 | |||
| Communist | Kimball Cariou | 292 | 0.66 | −0.32 | none listed | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Donna Peterson | 91 | 0.21 | +0.03 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 44,163 | 99.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 446 | 1.00 | −0.03 | |||||
| Turnout | 44,609 | 58.67 | −4.65 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 76,039 | |||||||
| New Democratic hold | Swing | +4.04 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[8][9] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Kingsway | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Don Davies | 20,763 | 45.74 | −4.38 | – | |||
| Liberal | Steven Kou | 12,625 | 27.81 | +11.16 | – | |||
| Conservative | Jojo Quimpo | 9,538 | 21.01 | −7.09 | – | |||
| Green | Catherine Moore | 1,476 | 3.25 | −0.52 | – | |||
| Libertarian | Matt Kadioglu | 468 | 1.03 | +0.44 | – | |||
| Communist | Kimball Cariou | 445 | 0.98 | +0.51 | – | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Donna Petersen | 81 | 0.18 | +0.01 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | – | 100.00% | $203,203.67 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 471 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 45,867 | 64.41 | +6.31 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 71,206 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[10][11] | ||||||||
| 2011 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Kingsway | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Don Davies | 23,457 | 50.08 | +14.88% | – | |||
| Conservative | Trang Nguyen | 13,157 | 28.09 | +.66% | – | |||
| Liberal | Wendy Yuan | 7,796 | 16.64 | −12.38% | – | |||
| Green | Louise Boutin | 1,860 | 3.97 | −2.73% | – | |||
| Libertarian | Matt Kadioglu | 275 | 0.59 | −11.0% | – | |||
| Communist | Kimball Cariou | 220 | 0.47 | −24.3% | – | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Donna Peterson | 78 | 0.17 | −47.6% | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | – | 100.00% | ||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election: Vancouver Kingsway | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Don Davies | 15,933 | 35.20% | +1.7% | $81,501 | |||
| Liberal | Wendy Yuan | 13,164 | 29.02% | −14.4% | $79,758 | |||
| Conservative | Salomon Rayek | 12,419 | 27.43% | +8.64% | $70,829 | |||
| Green | Doug Warkentin | 3,031 | 6.7% | +3.87% | $3,478 | |||
| Libertarian | Matt Kadioglu | 309 | 0.68% | +0.09% | -- | |||
| Communist | Kimball Cariou | 291 | 0.64% | +0.29% | $391 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Donna Peterson | 149 | 0.33% | +0.19% | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 45,296 | 100.00% | $84,758 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 328 | |||||||
| Turnout | 45,624 | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "NDP announces new critic portfolios ahead of next election". Canada's NDP. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "About Don". Don Davies Vancouver Kingsway. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ Kurucz, John (October 21, 2019). "NDP's Don Davies makes history as longest-serving MP for Vancouver-Kingsway". Vancouver Courier. Archived from the original on December 30, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ Aiello, Rachel. "Meet NDP MP Don Davies, the MP with the most private members' bills introduced in the House and zero chance of passing one". www.hilltimes.com. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ^ Zimonjic, Peter; Kapelos, Vassy (December 21, 2018). "Jagmeet Singh rejects his own MP's call to halt extradition of Huawei executive to U.S." CBC News. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ^ Nuttall, Jeremy (January 20, 2020). "Meng Wanzhou extradition case tainted by U.S. political interests, says NDP MP at Chinese consulate event". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on January 21, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ^ "Confirmed candidates — Vancouver Kingsway". Elections Canada. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Vancouver Kingsway, 30 September 2015
- ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived August 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine