Joy Smith
Member of Parliament for Kildonan—St. Paul, Manitoba, from 2004 to 2015. Conservative. Cast 1,737 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 6 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kildonan—St. Paul | MB | Conservative | 2004-10-04 | 2015-10-19 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Joy Smith 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 Joy Smith voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 6 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-12-05 | Yea | Conservative | C-278 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. |
| 2010-05-05 | Yea | Conservative | C-201 · That Bill C-201, An Act to amend the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act (deletion of deduction from annuity), as amended, be concurred in at report stage with further amendments. |
| 2010-05-05 | Yea | Conservative | C-201 · That Bill C-201 be amended by restoring the title as follows: “An Act to amend the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act (deletion of deduction from annuity)” |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 2015-04-29 | Yea | Conservative | C-624 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-06-28 | Kildonan—St. Paul (MB) | Conservative | 13,582 | 37.30% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Kildonan—St. Paul (MB) | Conservative | 17,524 | 43.13% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Kildonan—St. Paul (MB) | Conservative | 19,751 | 53.40% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Kildonan—St. Paul (MB) | Conservative | 22,670 | 58.20% | elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (143 here) and pairings (83) 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.
Alphabetical, not ranked. The directory sorts by family name. This site does not rank, score, or grade people.