Joe Comuzzi
Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North, Ontario, from 1994 to 2008. Conservative. Cast 262 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 13 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunder Bay—Nipigon | ON | Liberal | 1994-01-17 | 2000-10-22 |
| Thunder Bay—Superior North | ON | Liberal | 2001-01-29 | 2007-10-15 |
| Thunder Bay—Superior North | ON | Conservative | 2007-10-16 | 2008-09-07 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Joe Comuzzi 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 Joe Comuzzi voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 13 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-09-19 | Yea | Liberal | Ways and Means motion to introduce an Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence. |
| 2006-10-16 | Nay | Liberal | C-24 · That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word "That" and substituting the following: “the House decline to proceed with Bill C-24, An Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence, because it opposes the principle of the bill, which is to abrogate the North American Free Trade Agreement, to condone illegal conduct by Americans, to encourage further violations of the North American Free Trade Agreement and to undermine the Canadian softwood sector by leaving at least $ 1 billion in illegally collected duties in American hands, by failing to provide open market access for Canadian producers, by permitting the United States to escape its obligations within three years, by failing to provide necessary support to Canadian workers, employers and communities in the softwood sector and by imposing coercive and punitive taxation in order to crush dissent with this policy”. |
| 2006-10-18 | Yea | Liberal | C-24 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on International Trade. |
| 2006-12-06 | Yea | Liberal | C-24 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2007-03-27 | Yea | Liberal | That this House approve in general the budgetary policy of the government. |
| 2007-05-15 | Nay | Liberal | That, in the opinion of the House, the government's mistaken policies with respect to interest non-deductibility and income trusts are making it increasingly difficult for Canadian businesses to succeed internationally, while making Canadian businesses increasingly vulnerable to foreign takeovers, thus putting Canadian jobs, head offices and investment at risk and contributing to a hollowing out of Canadian enterprise; and this House calls upon the Prime Minister to instruct his Minister of Finance to resolve these dangers by withdrawing his interest non-deductibility proposal and entering into meaningful public consultations on appropriate measures to combat tax abuses, and by withdrawing his proposal to tax income trusts and replacing it with the Liberal alternative as summarized in the 14th Report of the Standing Committee on Finance, presented on February 28, 2007. |
| 2007-05-15 | Yea | Liberal | C-52 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance. |
| 2007-05-29 | Yea | Liberal | C-10 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2007-05-30 | Nay | Liberal | C-45 · That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word "That" and substituting the following: “Bill C-45, An Act respecting the sustainable development of Canada's seacoast and inland fisheries, be not now read a second time but that it be read a second time this day six months hence.”. |
| 2007-05-30 | Nay | Liberal | C-280 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2007-06-05 | Yea | Liberal | C-52 · That Bill C-52, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 19, 2007, as amended, be concurred in at report stage with further amendments. |
| 2007-06-07 | Nay | Liberal | That, in the opinion of the House, the government has failed to live up to verbal and written commitments made to Premiers by the Prime Minister during the last election campaign with respect to the Equalization Program and the Atlantic Accords. |
| 2007-06-13 | Nay | Liberal | That, in the opinion of the House, in relation to the proposed tax on distributions from publicly traded income trusts or publicly traded partnerships, other than those that only hold passive real estate investments, the government should repeal its planned 31.5 per cent tax regime and replace it with an immediate 10 per cent tax to be paid by such entities with the revenue to be shared equitably with provincial governments provided that the tax would be refundable to investors who are Canadian residents in order to: ( a) minimize the loss of savings to Canadians who invested in income trusts; (b) preserve the strengths of the income trust sector; (c) create tax fairness by eliminating any tax leakage caused by the income trust sector; and (d) create neutrality by eliminating any incentive to convert from a corporation to an income trust purely for tax purposes. |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-10-25 | Thunder Bay—Nipigon (ON) | Liberal | 24,249 | 65.07% | elected |
| 1997-06-02 | Thunder Bay—Nipigon (ON) | Liberal | 16,745 | 51.83% | elected |
| 2000-11-27 | Thunder Bay—Superior North (ON) | Liberal | 15,241 | 48.12% | elected |
| 2004-06-28 | Thunder Bay—Superior North (ON) | Liberal | 15,022 | 43.04% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Thunder Bay—Superior North (ON) | Liberal | 14,009 | 36.01% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (110 here) and pairings (1) 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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