Gary Goodyear

Infobox CanadianMP | name=Gary Goodyear


term_start=2004 election
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predecessor= Janko Peric
birth_date= birth date and age |1958|03|10
birth_place= Cambridge, Ontario
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death_date=
death_place=
profession= Chiropractor
party=Conservative
party colour=Conservative
riding=Cambridge
residence=Cambridge
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spouse= Valerie Goodyear|

Gary Goodyear (born March 10, 1958 in Cambridge, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, having been elected to represent the riding of Cambridge as a Conservative in 2004.

Goodyear was educated at the University of Waterloo, in Biomechanics and Psychology. He attended the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, where he graduated cum laude, was class president, and valedictorian. Goodyear then received fellowships in clinical acupuncture, physiotherapy and sports injury [ [http://www.ccachiro.org/client/cca/cca.nsf/web/8F61DEB136CC814B85256FDD004DFCFD?OpenDocument#College%20of%20Chiropractic%20Sports%20Sc Specialty Colleges ] ] . He started his full-time practice in Cambridge in 1984 where he was Clinic Director, Director of Patient Services and Past President of Future Recovery Canada. He was a co-designer of the three year post-graduate Sports Fellowship Program. He also co-authored “Practice Guidelines” and was Public Relations Director and Past President for the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences in Toronto [ [http://www.ccachiro.org/client/cca/cca.nsf/web/Review+Group!OpenDocument Review Group ] ] . He was also the health columnist for the "Cambridge Times" newspaper from 1986 to 1996, and has taught at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and the University of Waterloo.

Political career

In the 2004 federal election, Goodyear defeated incumbent Liberal Janko Peric by 224 votes (as confirmed on recount) to win the Cambridge riding. After the election, Goodyear was named Ontario Chair of the Conservative Party caucus. [cite web
url=http://www.therecord.com/fed_election2006/fed_election2006_06011882944.html
title=Battle for Cambridge's votes
publisher=The Record
accessdate=2008-05-30
last=Pink
first=Dave] He was re-elected in 2006 with the endorsement of Vote Marriage Canada, and was also endorsed by the Canadian Islamic Congress receiving a grade of A [ [http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/election2006/search.php Canadian Islamic Congress | 2006 Canadian Fedral Elections ] ] In 2006, he won the riding of Cambridge by almost 6,000 votes.

After the 2006 federal election Goodyear was elected Standing committee chair of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee (of which he chairs the Subcommittee on Parliament Hill Security. In March 2008 the Procedure and House Affairs Committee ousted Goodyear by moving a motion of non-confidence in him. The committee then elected Conservative MP Joe Preston as the chair against his will, and he called no meetings before resigning from his position. The committee currently has no chair and has not met since March 6. Jay Hill, Conservative party whip, said he is adamant that unless the opposition is willing to meet to re-elect Mr. Goodyear as the chair and to withdraw the motion to study the "in and out" election financing, there will be no Procedure and House Affairs committee meetings. [ cite web
url=http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/may/12/legislation/&c=2
title=Senator urges Prime Minister Harper to fill increasing Senate vacancies
publisher=The Hill Times
accessdate=2008-05-29
last=Vongdouangchanh
first=Bev] The Speaker of the House made a ruling on the events in this committee and others which stated rulings by committee chairs are being routinely overturned by majority votes, even when the rulings are procedurally sound. Such a state of affairs has led to "general lawlessness" at committees. [cite web
url=http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/346245
title=Commons speaker decries 'anarchy' in committees
publisher=www.thestar.com
accessdate=2008-06-06
last=
first=] Goodyear also chairs Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure He was also named Chairman of the all-party Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group.

A former campaign manager for Conservative MP Gary Goodyear admits he negotiated a lease for a campaign headquarters in 2004 that said the landlord would make a political donation to Mr. Goodyear's election bid. In a compliance agreement with the Commissioner of Canada Elections, Reg Petersen "acknowledged an act that constitutes an offence" under the Elections Act. [cite web
url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=18434aaa-1686-4d7b-9a2f-622a9a0ff160
title=Tory MP's former campaign boss agrees he violated Elections Act
publisher=The Ottawa Citizen
accessdate=2008-05-29
last=Mcgregor
first=Glen]

References

External links

* [http://www.garygoodyear.com/ Cary Goodyear Official site]
* [http://www.garygoodyear.ca/ Gary Goodyear Campaign Site]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=18543&s=M Federal Political Experience]

Electoral Record

Footnotes