David Tilson
Member of Parliament for Dufferin—Caledon, Ontario, from 2004 to 2019. Conservative. Cast 2,595 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 16 times.
ballots cast2,5951,212 yea · 1,383 nay
against party line160.62% of cast
hansard statements13,9942004–2019
elections55 won
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dufferin—Caledon | ON | Conservative | 2004-10-04 | 2019-10-21 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where David Tilson voted yea or nay. Absences and pairings are not ballots and are not drawn. Votes against the party line, if any, are the lit slice at the base of the bar.
Against the party line
Every recorded division where David Tilson voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 16 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-05-26 | Yea | Conservative | C-501 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. |
| 2011-03-09 | Yea | Conservative | C-501 · That Bill C-501, An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and other Acts (pension protection), as amended, be concurred in at report stage. |
| 2012-02-29 | Yea | Conservative | C-280 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Health. |
| 2012-03-14 | Yea | Conservative | C-267 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. |
| 2012-06-06 | Yea | Conservative | C-273 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. |
| 2012-06-13 | Yea | Conservative | That the Standing Committee on Finance be instructed to undertake a study on income inequality in Canada and that this study include, but not be limited to, (i) a review of Canada’s federal and provincial systems of personal income taxation and income supports, (ii) an examination of best practices that reduce income inequality and improve GDP per capita, (iii) the identification of any significant gaps in the federal system of taxation and income support that contribute to income inequality, as well as any significant disincentives to paid work in the formal economy that may exist as part of a “welfare trap”, (iv) recommendations on how best to improve the equality of opportunity and prosperity for all Canadians; and that the Committee report its findings to the House within one year of the adoption of this motion. |
| 2012-11-21 | Yea | Conservative | That the House hereby affirm its support for the following measures to support Canada's firefighters which, in the opinion of the House, the government should act upon promptly: ( a) the creation of a national Public Safety Officer Compensation Benefit in the amount of $300,000, indexed annually, to help address the financial security of the families of firefighters and other public safety officers who are killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty; (b) the recognition of firefighters, in their vital role as “first responders”, as an integral part of Canada’s “critical infrastructure”, and as “health care workers” under the Canada Influenza Pandemic Plan, entitled to priority access to vaccines and other drugs in cases of pandemics and other public health emergencies; (c) the specification of firefighter safety as an objective of the National Building Code of Canada; and (d) a review of the National Building Code of Canada, in conjunction with the International Association of Firefighters, to identify the most urgent safety issues impacting firefighters and the best means to address them. |
| 2012-11-21 | Yea | Conservative | That, given that bullying is a serious problem affecting Canadian communities, a special committee of the House be appointed and directed to develop a National Bullying Prevention Strategy to: ( a) study the prevalence and impact of different types of bullying, including physical, verbal, indirect and cyber bullying; (b) identify and adopt a range of evidence-based anti-bullying best practices; (c) promote and disseminate anti-bullying information to Canadian families through a variety of mediums; (d) provide support for organizations that work with young people to promote positive and safe environments; (e) focus on prevention rather than criminalization; and that the committee consist of 12 members which shall include seven members from the government party, four members from the Official Opposition and one member from the Liberal Party, provided that the Chair shall be from the government party; that in addition to the Chair, there be one Vice-Chair from each of the opposition parties; that the committee have all of the powers of a Standing Committee as provided in the Standing Orders; that the members to serve on the said committee be appointed by the Whip of each party depositing with the Clerk of the House a list of his or her party’s members of the committee no later than five sitting days following the adoption of this motion; that the quorum of the special committee be seven members for any proceedings, provided that at least a member of the opposition and of the government party be present; that membership substitutions be permitted to be made from time to time, if required, in the manner provided for in Standing Order 114(2); and that the committee report its recommendations to this House within one year of the adoption of this motion. |
| 2014-11-05 | Nay | Conservative | C-597 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. |
| 2015-05-06 | Yea | Conservative | C-356 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Health. |
| 2016-05-30 | Nay | Conservative | C-14 · “(d) their imminent natural death has become foreseeable, taking into account all of their medical circumstances.” |
| 2016-05-31 | Yea | Conservative | C-14 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2017-10-25 | Yea | Conservative | C-203 · 2nd reading of Bill C-203, An Act to amend the Supreme Court Act (understanding the official languages) |
| 2018-05-01 | Nay | Conservative | Opposition Motion (Papal apology on residential schools) |
| 2019-05-01 | Yea | Conservative | C-415 · 2nd reading of Bill C-415, An Act to establish a procedure for expunging certain cannabis-related convictions |
| 2019-05-29 | Yea | Conservative | Private Members' Business M-170 (Officers of Parliament) |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-06-28 | Dufferin—Caledon (ON) | Conservative | 19,270 | 42.81% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Dufferin—Caledon (ON) | Conservative | 23,641 | 47.94% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Dufferin—Caledon (ON) | Conservative | 23,363 | 53.21% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Dufferin—Caledon (ON) | Conservative | 28,647 | 59.00% | elected |
| 2015-10-19 | Dufferin—Caledon (ON) | Conservative | 27,977 | 46.30% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (726 here) and pairings (21) are recorded but are not votes, and every rate on this page divides by ballots cast, never by divisions held.
A dissent is a caucus dissent. Ballots cast while sitting as an Independent are never counted as dissents — an Independent has no party line to defy. The source dump flags 61 such ballots anyway; this site excludes them, and documents the artefact in correction 0001.
The record has edges. Memberships and Hansard begin 1994-01-17; recorded divisions begin 2006-05-08. A member who served before that date shows zero ballots because the record starts there, not because they never voted.
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