James Moore (Canadian politician)

Infobox CanadianMP
honorific-prefix = The Honourable
name = James Moore
honorific-suffix =
PC, MP

riding = Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam
parliament = Canadian
term_start = 2004 federal election
term_end =
predecessor = "new riding"
successor =
riding2 = Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam
parliament2 = Canadian
term_start2 = 2000
term_end2 = 2004
predecessor2 = Lou Sekora
successor2 = "riding abolished"
birth_date = birth date and age |1976|06|10
birth_place = New Westminster, British Columbia
death_date =
death_place =
party = Conservative
otherparty = Canadian Alliance (2000-2003)
portfolio = Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific Gateway) (2010 Olympics) (Official Languages)
spouse = Single
residence = Coquitlam, British Columbia
occupation = Broadcaster

James Moore PC, MP (born June 10, 1976 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is the Canadian Member of Parliament for Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Moore is the Secretary of State for Official Languages, Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics.

Before being elected to Parliament, Moore was a student and hosted a campus radio program in Prince George, British Columbia. He was also the author of a website, "End the NDP", between 1996 to 1998. The website was a humorous representation of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia under Glen Clark.

Political career

He was elected to parliament in the 2000 federal election, beating former Coquitlam mayor and incumbent Liberal Lou Sekora, as a member of the Canadian Alliance Party. In 2003, the party merged with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to form the Conservative Party of Canada. In 2004, Moore was re-elected with 41% of the vote, down from 51% the previous election. He was re-elected by the same margin against another former Coquitlam mayor, Jon Kingsbury, in the 2006 election.

In parliament, Moore served in a variety of posts as a member of the official opposition, including transport critic, amateur sport critic, and public works critic. Some speculated he would be named to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet, but this turned out not to be the case.

On February 7, 2006, Moore was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister Public Works and Government Services. Principally, Moore was responsible for answering questions regarding his department during Question Period. He also served as Parliamentary Secretary to David Emerson, the then Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics.

Moore is known for having liberal views on social issues that sometimes put him in conflict with other members of his party. He was one of the few libertarians in the mostly socially conservative Canadian Alliance. In 2004, he voted in favour of same-sex marriage after conducting a riding-wide poll of constituents (54% supported the issue). The issue has proven controversial within his own riding, however. In 2006, an independent candidate (who was in fact a former member of the local Conservative riding association) ran against Moore on an explicitly anti-same sex marriage platform.

He is one of several members of the House of Commons to have started a blog, which he updated frequently during his bid for re-election in 2005. He shut it down shortly after, citing his newfound responsibilities as a Parliamentary Secretary as being incompatible with keeping a blog.

During a parliamentary session on December 5, 2007, Irene Mathyssen stood in the Chamber and accused Moore of looking at images of "scantily clad" women on his personal laptop computer. She openly questioned his integrity and said his actions "disrespected women". Mathyssen made the charge publicly before talking to Moore, and later when Mathyssen and Moore spoke in person about the incident, Moore explained that the woman in the image was of his girlfriend. Mathyssen has apologized for the incident, and was criticized in the media for it. [cite web
url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071205/photo_allegations_071205/20071205?hub=TopStories
title=New Democrat will apologize for political blunder
publisher=CTV
accessdate=2008-03-10
author=CTV.ca News Staff]

Chuck Cadman bribery allegations

Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose James Moore as his point man for handling opposition party questions in the daily Question Period, alleging misconduct on the part of two senior Conservatives, Doug Finley and Tom Flanagan. Dona Cadman says that prior to the May 19, 2005 budget vote her husband, Chuck Cadman, was offered a million-dollar life insurance policy in exchange for his vote to bring down the Liberal government. [cite web
url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080227.wcadmann0227/BNStory/National/home
title=Tories tried to sway vote of dying MP, widow alleges
publisher=The Globe and Mail
accessdate=2008-02-27
last=Gloria Galloway and Brian Laghi
first=]

Moore told a news conference June 4, 2008 that two top audio specialists found that the [http://www.thestar.com/fpLarge/video/308220 tape] in which PM Stephen Harper confirms financial considerations had been offered to Chuck Cadman had been altered. But Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, the critic for intergovernmental affairs, said on June 5, 2008 that the Tories have not been clear about what they claim was doctored on the tape. He said the Tories have also forgotten a huge part of the allegations -- the testimony of Cadman's widow, Dona Cadman. In her affidavit, Dona Cadman "repeats very clearly her recollection of her husband's words to the effect that two Conservative operatives... offered him a million dollar life insurance policy in exchange for his vote," said LeBlanc. [cite web
url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080604/cadman_follow_080605/20080605?hub=QPeriod
title=Tories using Cadman to distract from Bernier: Grits
publisher=CTV
accessdate=2008-06-05
last=CTV.ca News Staff
first=]

Tom Zytaruk, the reporter who made the recording, said "I know I didn't doctor any tape. So in a sense all this stuff that [Conservative MP] James Moore is saying is meaningless. I know what happened." [cite web
url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080607.BCMASON07/TPStory/National/columnists
title=Tories trying to bully an honest reporter over a 'split-second' tape glitch
publisher=The Globe and Mail
accessdate=2008-06-07
last=Mason
first=Gary]

Election results

References

External links

* [http://www.jamesmoore.org/ Official MP website]
* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=c7660459-7e05-4540-b825-ce3958285806&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience Parliament Webpage]

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