Michelle Rempel Garner
- Born
- February 14, 1980 — Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Education
- Degree in economics at the University of Manitoba
- Career
- Director of the University of Calgary's Institutional Programs Division; technology commercialization division of the University of Manitoba
- Political Experience
- President of the Conservative Party riding executive for Calgary—Nose Hill; MP for Calgary Centre-North (2011); Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification
- Notable
- Named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2010; one of Calgary's Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue magazine in 2014; selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders in 2016.
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Business & Financial Interests
Before being elected to Parliament, Michelle Rempel Garner was the director of the technology commercialization office at the University of Calgary. She holds a degree in economics. According to her public disclosures to the Ethics Commissioner, she has held various assets, including publicly traded securities and a rental property in Calgary.
Key Relationships & Connections
Rempel Garner was appointed as a minister of state by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was a key figure in her early political career. She is often identified with the progressive wing of the Conservative Party and is considered a political ally of figures like former interim leader Rona Ambrose. She is married to Jeff Garner, an American military veteran.
Public Controversies
In 2020, Rempel Garner faced media scrutiny for travelling to her home in Oklahoma during the COVID-19 pandemic. She stated the travel was for an essential personal matter related to her family. She has also been a prominent voice against online harassment and abuse directed at politicians, often publicizing threats she has received. In 2018, she was reportedly removed from a parliamentary committee by then-leader Andrew Scheer following a public dispute with a fellow Conservative MP over a report. In 2022, she publicly explored a bid for the leadership of Alberta's United Conservative Party but ultimately decided not to enter the race, citing concerns about the party's stability.
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Michelle Rempel Garner won with 36,597 votes (59.4%)
Total votes cast: 61,592
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Prime Minister minister Mr. Speaker, theclaims that he has taken back control of the immigration system, but that is kind of hard to believe. In the past year, his government has let in hundreds of thousands of new temporary foreign workers while Canadians cannot find jobs. They have no way of tracking whether millions of non-citizens on expired or expiring visas will leave. Now the government is
Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, theclaims to have taken back control of the immigration system, but that is really hard to believe. That is because in the past year, the Prime Minister has allowed the government to let in hundreds of thousands of new non-citizen temporary foreign workers while Canadian kids cannot find jobs or a place to rent. The Liberals have allowed massive, scandalous fraud to
Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, when we listen to that answer and then listen to thesay that the Liberals have taken back control of the immigration system, it kind of sounds a little delulu. The entire system is rife with abuse. There is no way to track if non-citizens actually leave and they are issuing visitor visas to terrorists. Prime Minister If this is the's definition of what taking control
Mr. Speaker, the minister just claimed that their plan is working, yet in the last week alone, we found out that the Liberal government issued a special visa to a terrorist so he could enter Canada. It allowed over 21,000 non-citizens who fraudulently came into Canada to claim asylum, and it has no way to track if millions of non-citizens on expired or expiring visas would leave. Prime Minister
Mr. Speaker, today the minister said that she would continue issuing tens of thousands of new foreign student permits, in spite of millions of non-citizens being in Canada on expired or expiring permits and her admission that the Liberals have absolutely no way to track whether or not they have left. Fraud is still running unchecked in her department. They cannot detect it. Prime Minister When
Mr. Speaker, they “cannot comment” on it. Is that the best they could do for a QP line? Minister of Immigration Here is the reality: Theissued a permit. She would have had to have done it for a known member of a listed terrorist organization. The Minister of Immigration did that, and now the Liberals cannot comment on it. It is literally all over the news. Everybody in Canada needs to know how
immigration minister Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are not even letting theanswer a question that is directly in the purview of her department. Minister of Immigration Here is what happened: At some point, thesaid that it is totally in the best interest of Canada to have a member of a listed terrorist organization, an actual terrorist, get a special permit to land in this country. The only reason
Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, yes, it is kind of wild that thehas delivered nothing on the trade front. I thought that was his big promise. The track record with this guy is he makes a big promise and then he does not deliver. Canadians are not only starting to wake up to this fact, but it is costing them too. Prime Minister I will just close with this anecdote. My husband really likes