Wladyslaw Lizon
Wladyslaw Lizon | |
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Member of Parliament for Mississauga East—Cooksville | |
In office 2011 – August 4, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Albina Guarnieri |
Succeeded by | Peter Fonseca |
Personal details | |
Born | Nowy Sącz, Poland | June 27, 1954
Political party | Conservative |
Residence | Mississauga, Ontario |
Profession | Engineer |
Wladyslaw Lizon (Polish: Władysław Lizoń; born June 27, 1954) is a Polish Canadian former politician. He was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015 who represented the Greater Toronto Area riding of Mississauga East—Cooksville. He was the first Polish-born Member of Parliament.
Background[]
Lizon graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland with a master's degree in mining engineering in 1978. He was an engineer in Poland's Silesia coal mines until 1983. In 1988 he emigrated to Canada, and created Gomark Enterprises, a consulting business that designs and supplies interior stone finishes and imports and services machinery used in the stone industry.[1]
He was the president of the Canadian Polish Congress from 2005 to 2010.[2] He assisted in the removal of visa requirements for visitors from Poland.[3] He is also a founding member of Tribute to Liberty, an organization dedicated to building a national monument in Ottawa to honour the victims of communism in the world.[4]
Politics[]
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In the 2011 Canadian federal election, Lizon ran as Conservative candidate in the riding of Mississauga East—Cooksville. He defeated Liberal candidate Peter Fonseca by 676 votes.[5]
In September 2011, Lizon introduced Bill C-266, An Act to establish Pope John Paul II Day, also called by its short title: Pope John Paul II Day Act.[6] A similar bill was first introduced in October 2010 by Liberal MP Andrew Kania.[7] Both bills sought to recognize April 2 as a day to honour the memory of the late Pope John Paul II. Bill C-266 received Royal Assent on December 16, 2014, becoming law. April 2, 2015 marked the 10 year anniversary since the passing of Pope John Paul II and was incidentally the first Pope John Paul II Day observed in Canada.
In 2012, Lizon was criticized by the South Asian community and his colleagues in Parliament when he sent out a survey to his constituents asking what languages they spoke, with one of the languages listed as "Indian". Jim Karygiannis, the Liberal MP for Scarborough-Agincourt, issued a press release calling the mailer insulting, comparing it to asking someone if they speak Canadian or Mexican.[8]
In 2013, Lizon joined two other Conservative MPs (Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott and Alberta MP Leon Benoit) in writing a letter to the RCMP requesting a homicide investigation into some late term abortions that may have resulted in live births. The letter was criticized as an attempt to reopen the abortion debate. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, "I think all members of this House, whether they agree with it or not, understand that abortion is legal in Canada and this government, myself included, have made it very clear that the government does not intend to change the law in this regard."[9][10]
In the 2015 election Lizon again faced Liberal candidate Fonseca. This time Fonseca defeated him by 9,801 votes.[11]
In the recent 2019 Election, Lizon was defeated by Liberal candidate Peter Fonseca by 9,821 votes.
Electoral record[]
2019 Canadian federal election: Mississauga East—Cooksville | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Peter Fonseca | 27,923 | 53.1 | -1.13 | $54,292.81 | |||
Conservative | Wladyslaw Lizon | 17,664 | 33.6 | -1.75 | none listed | |||
New Democratic | Tom Takacs | 4,643 | 8.8 | +0.17 | none listed | |||
Green | Maha Rasheed | 1,578 | 3.0 | +1.52 | $0.00 | |||
People's | Syed Rizvi | 637 | 1.2 | $2,799.42 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Anna Di Carlo | 178 | 0.3 | -0.01 | $0.00 | |||
Total valid votes/expense limit | 52,623 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 483 | |||||||
Turnout | 53,106 | 62.1 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 85,584 | |||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.31 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada[12][13] |
2015 Canadian federal election: Mississauga East—Cooksville | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Peter Fonseca | 28,154 | 54.23 | +18.07 | $85,296.75 | |||
Conservative | Wladyslaw Lizon | 18,353 | 35.35 | -8.20 | $109,692.04 | |||
New Democratic | Ali Naqvi | 4,481 | 8.63 | -9.03 | $34,143.24 | |||
Green | Jaymini Bhikha | 766 | 1.48 | -0.69 | – | |||
Marxist–Leninist | Tim Sullivan | 163 | 0.31 | – | – | |||
Total valid votes/expense limit | 51,917 | 100.00 | $217,661.14 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 287 | 0.55 | ||||||
Turnout | 52,204 | 63.87 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 81,736 | |||||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.13 | ||||||
Source(s)
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2011 Canadian federal election: Mississauga East—Cooksville | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Conservative | Wladyslaw Lizon | 18,796 | 39.97 | +7.42 | $90,142 | |||
Liberal | Peter Fonseca | 18,120 | 38.53 | -11.63 | $71,450 | |||
New Democratic | Waseem Ahmed | 8,836 | 18.79 | +7.44 | $6,591 | |||
Green | Jaymini Bhikha | 1,032 | 2.19 | -3.05 | $968 | |||
Marxist–Leninist | Pierre Chénier | 241 | 0.51 | -0.16 | ||||
Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,025 | 100.00 | $169,151 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 289 | 0.61 | ||||||
Turnout | 47,314 | 56.8 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 83,018 | |||||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +9.52 | ||||||
Source(s)
Elections Canada (2011). "Official Voting Results: Forty-first General Election". Retrieved 28 September 2015. |
References[]
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- ^ O'Toole, Megan (4 May 2011). "Meet your new MPs; All nine are Conservatives". National Post. p. A12.
- ^ "Past Presidents". Canadian Polish Congress. 2015.
- ^ Khalil, Nouman (13 April 2011). "Profiles of candidates fighting for key GTA ridings". South Asian Focus. Brampton, Ont. p. 1.
- ^ Curry, Bill (19 March 2015). "Tory-linked charity behind monument declared it was not active politically". The Globe and Mail. p. A1.
- ^ "Riding results from across Canada". Edmonton Journal. 3 May 2011. p. A6.
- ^ "Bill C-266". Parliament of Canada. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
- ^ "Bill C-573". Parliament of Canada. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
- ^ "Tory MP to his South Asian constituents: Do you speak 'Indian'?". The Globe and Mail. 20 January 2012.
- ^ Canadian Press (1 January 2013). "Group Of Tory MPs Want Late Abortions Investigated As Murders". Huffington Post.
- ^ "MPs' request to have RCMP investigate abortions is way off base". The Globe and Mail. 1 February 2013.
- ^ Diebel, Linda (19 October 2015). "Peter Fonseca wins Mississauga East—Cooksville". Toronto Star. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
External links[]
- Wladyslaw Lizon – Parliament of Canada biography
- Speeches, votes and activity at OpenParliament.ca
- 1954 births
- AGH University of Science and Technology alumni
- Canadian engineers
- Canadian people of Polish descent
- Conservative Party of Canada MPs
- Living people
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
- Politicians from Mississauga
- Polish emigrants to Canada
- 21st-century Canadian politicians
- People from Nowy Sącz