John McKay
Member of Parliament for Scarborough—Guildwood, Ontario, from 1997 to 2025. Liberal. Cast 3,739 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 20 times.
ballots cast3,7392,468 yea · 1,271 nay
against party line200.53% of cast
hansard statements17,9361997–2024
elections99 won
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarborough East | ON | Liberal | 1997-09-22 | 2004-05-23 |
| Scarborough—Guildwood | ON | Liberal | 2004-10-04 | 2025-04-28 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where John McKay 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 John McKay voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 20 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-12-07 | Yea | Liberal | That this House call on the government to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages. |
| 2010-03-23 | Nay | Liberal | That, in the opinion of the House, the government’s G8 maternal and child health initiative for the world’s poorest regions must include the full range of family planning, sexual and reproductive health options, including contraception, consistent with the policy of previous Liberal and Conservative governments, and all other G8 governments last year in L’Aquila, Italy; that the approach of the Government of Canada must be based on scientific evidence, which proves that education and family planning can prevent as many as one in every three maternal deaths; and that the Canadian government should refrain from advancing the failed right-wing ideologies previously imposed by the George W. Bush administration in the United States, which made humanitarian assistance conditional upon a “global gag rule” that required all non-governmental organizations receiving federal funding to refrain from promoting medically-sound family planning. |
| 2011-02-09 | Nay | Liberal | C-389 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2012-09-26 | Yea | Liberal | That a special committee of the House be appointed and directed to review the declaration in Subsection 223(1) of the Criminal Code which states that a child becomes a human being only at the moment of complete birth and to answer the questions hereinafter set forth; that the membership of the special 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 the members to serve on the said committee be appointed by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs and the membership report of the special committee be presented to the House no later than 20 sitting days after the adoption of this motion; that substitutions to the membership of the special committee be allowed, if required, in the manner provided by Standing Order 114(2); that the special committee have all the powers of a Standing Committee as provided in the Standing Orders; and that the special committee present its final report to the House of Commons within 10 months after the adoption of this motion with answers to the following questions, (i) what medical evidence exists to demonstrate that a child is or is not a human being before the moment of complete birth, (ii) is the preponderance of medical evidence consistent with the declaration in Subsection 223(1) that a child is only a human being at the moment of complete birth, (iii) what are the legal impact and consequences of Subsection 223(1) on the fundamental human rights of a child before the moment of complete birth, (iv) what are the options available to Parliament in the exercise of its legislative authority in accordance with the Constitution and decisions of the Supreme Court to affirm, amend, or replace Subsection 223(1). |
| 2015-02-04 | Nay | Liberal | C-518 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2015-02-04 | Nay | Liberal | C-518 · That Bill C-518, An Act to amend the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act (withdrawal allowance), as amended, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments]. |
| 2016-05-30 | Yea | Liberal | C-14 · “(7.1) It is recognized that the medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, pharmacist or other health care institution care provider, or any such institution, is free to refuse to provide direct or indirect medical assistance in dying. (7.2) No medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, pharmacist or other healthcare institution care provider, or any such institution, shall be deprived of any benefit, or be subject to any obligation or sanction, under any law of the Parliament of Canada solely by reason of their exercise, in respect of medical assistance in dying, of the freedom of conscience and religion guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the expression of their beliefs in respect of medical assistance in dying based on that guaranteed freedom.” |
| 2017-03-23 | Yea | Liberal | C-323 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. |
| 2017-05-17 | Yea | Liberal | C-291 · 2nd reading of Bill C-291, An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (genetically modified food) |
| 2017-05-30 | Yea | Liberal | Opposition Motion (Autism Spectrum Disorder) |
| 2020-11-18 | Yea | Liberal | Opposition Motion (Foreign policy toward China) |
| 2021-03-11 | Nay | Liberal | C-7 · Motion for closure |
| 2021-03-11 | Yea | Liberal | C-7 · Motion respecting Senate amendments to Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) (amendment) |
| 2021-03-11 | Nay | Liberal | C-7 · Motion respecting Senate amendments to Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) |
| 2021-06-02 | Yea | Liberal | Opposition Motion (Documents related to the transfer of Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Wuhan Institute of Virology) |
| 2022-03-02 | Nay | Liberal | Opposition Motion (Representation of Quebec in the House of Commons) |
| 2022-05-16 | Yea | Liberal | Opposition Motion (Special committee on the Canada-People's Republic of China relationship) |
| 2022-06-08 | Yea | Liberal | C-240 · 2nd reading of Bill C-240, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (donations involving private corporation shares or real estate) |
| 2023-10-18 | Yea | Liberal | C-314 · 2nd reading of Bill C-314, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) |
| 2023-12-13 | Yea | Liberal | S-210 · 2nd reading of Bill S-210, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to sexually explicit material |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-06-02 | Scarborough East (ON) | Liberal | 23,065 | 54.33% | elected |
| 2000-11-27 | Scarborough East (ON) | Liberal | 24,019 | 59.82% | elected |
| 2004-06-28 | Scarborough—Guildwood (ON) | Liberal | 20,950 | 57.53% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Scarborough—Guildwood (ON) | Liberal | 21,877 | 53.26% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Scarborough—Guildwood (ON) | Liberal | 18,098 | 50.17% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Scarborough—Guildwood (ON) | Liberal | 13,849 | 36.20% | elected |
| 2015-10-19 | Scarborough—Guildwood (ON) | Liberal | 25,167 | 60.00% | elected |
| 2019-10-21 | Scarborough—Guildwood (ON) | Liberal | 26,123 | 61.10% | elected |
| 2021-09-20 | Scarborough—Guildwood (ON) | Liberal | 22,944 | 61.10% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (735 here) and pairings (7) 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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