Michael Chongsitting
Member of Parliament for Wellington—Halton Hills North, Ontario, since 2004. Conservative. Cast 3,838 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 35 times.
ballots cast3,8381,882 yea · 1,956 nay
against party line350.91% of cast
hansard statements10,2342004–2026
elections98 won
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington—Halton Hills | ON | Conservative | 2004-10-04 | 2025-04-28 |
| Wellington—Halton Hills North | ON | Conservative | 2025-04-28 | sitting |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Michael Chong 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 Michael Chong voted against the majority of their own caucus — all 35 of them, in full, because a count without its list is a claim and not a record.
| Date | Vote | Party | Division |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-12-07 | Nay | Conservative | 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. |
| 2009-04-22 | Yea | Conservative | C-300 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. |
| 2009-06-03 | Yea | Conservative | That the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities be instructed to consider the introduction in Canada of a national voluntary service policy for young people by analyzing existing programs and using the work done by the Voluntary Sector Initiative in 2003 as its point of departure; by holding public hearings; and by presenting a report to the House no later than November 16, 2009 that would contain among other things a review of similar policies in the rest of the world and a summary of the evidence heard. |
| 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. |
| 2012-03-14 | 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. |
| 2012-06-06 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · 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. |
| 2012-11-28 | Yea | Conservative | C-398 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. |
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That Bill C-279, in Clause 1, be amended by adding after line 21 on page 1 the following: “(2) In this section, “gender identity” means, in respect of an individual, the individual’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex that the individual was assigned at birth.” |
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That Bill C-279 be amended by replacing the long title on page 1 with the following: “An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity)” |
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2013-03-20 | Yea | Conservative | C-279 · That Bill C-279, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), {as amended}, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments]. |
| 2013-06-05 | Nay | Conservative | S-209 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2014-01-29 | Yea | Conservative | That the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be instructed to recommend changes to the Standing Orders and other conventions governing petitions so as to establish an electronic petitioning system that would enhance the current paper-based petitions system by allowing Canadians to sign petitions electronically, and to consider, among other things, (i) the possibility to trigger a debate in the House of Commons outside of current sitting hours when a certain threshold of signatures is reached, (ii) the necessity for no fewer than five Members of Parliament to sponsor the e-petition and to table it in the House once a time limit to collect signatures is reached, (iii) the study made in the 38th Parliament regarding e-petitions, and that the Committee report its findings to the House, with proposed changes to the Standing Orders and other conventions governing petitions, within 12 months of the adoption of this order. |
| 2014-02-26 | Yea | Conservative | C-461 · That Bill C-461 be amended by replacing the long title on page 1 with the following: “An Act to amend the Privacy Act (disclosure of information)” |
| 2014-02-26 | Yea | Conservative | C-461 · That Bill C-461, in Clause 4, be amended by replacing lines 4 to 20 on page 2 with the following: “(iii) the total annual monetary income of the individual, including any performance bonus, as well as the job classification and responsibilities of the position held by the individual, and any additional responsibilities given to the individual, if that income is equal to or greater than the sessional allowance — within the meaning of the Parliament of Canada Act — payable to a member of Parliament, (iii.1) the salary range of the position held by the individual, as well as the classification and responsibilities of that position, if the individual's total annual monetary income, including any performance bonus, is less than the sessional allowance — within the meaning of the Parliament of Canada Act — payable to a member of Parliament, (iii.2) the expenses incurred by the individual in the course of employment for which the individual has been reimbursed by the government institution,” |
| 2014-05-07 | Yea | Conservative | C-567 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. |
| 2014-09-30 | Yea | Conservative | That Standing Order 11(2) be replaced with the following: The Speaker or the Chair of Committees of the Whole, after having called the attention of the House, or of the Committee, to the conduct of a Member who persists in irrelevance, or repetition, including during responses to oral questions, may direct the Member to discontinue his or her intervention, and if then the Member still continues to speak, the Speaker shall name the Member or, if in Committee of the Whole, the Chair shall report the Member to the House. |
| 2014-10-29 | Nay | Conservative | C-520 · That the Bill, as amended, be concurred in at report stage with a further amendment. |
| 2014-10-29 | Yea | Conservative | C-520 · That Bill C-520 be amended by deleting Clause 1. |
| 2014-10-29 | Nay | Conservative | C-520 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2015-02-04 | Yea | Conservative | C-626 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. |
| 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. |
| 2016-05-30 | Nay | Conservative | C-14 · “(d) their imminent natural death has become foreseeable, taking into account all of their medical circumstances.” |
| 2016-05-30 | Nay | Conservative | C-14 · “(f) prior to making the request, they consulted a medical practitioner regarding palliative care options and were informed of the full range of options.” |
| 2016-05-31 | Yea | Conservative | C-14 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2016-06-01 | Yea | Conservative | C-210 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. |
| 2016-06-15 | Yea | Conservative | C-210 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2016-10-19 | Nay | Conservative | C-225 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. |
| 2016-10-26 | Nay | Conservative | C-240 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance. |
| 2017-03-23 | Yea | Conservative | That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: ( a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear; (b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it; and (c) request that the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government could (i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia, in Canada, while ensuring a community-centered focus with a holistic response through evidence-based policy-making, (ii) collect data to contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs assessments for impacted communities, and that the Committee should present its findings and recommendations to the House no later than 240 calendar days from the adoption of this motion, provided that in its report, the Committee should make recommendations that the government may use to better reflect the enshrined rights and freedoms in the Constitution Acts, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |
| 2021-02-17 | Nay | Conservative | C-218 · 2nd reading of Bill C-218, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sports betting) |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-11-27 | Waterloo—Wellington (ON) | Progressive Conservative | 7,999 | 17.80% | not elected |
| 2004-06-28 | Wellington—Halton Hills (ON) | Conservative | 21,479 | 42.81% | elected |
| 2006-01-23 | Wellington—Halton Hills (ON) | Conservative | 27,907 | 50.67% | elected |
| 2008-10-14 | Wellington—Halton Hills (ON) | Conservative | 29,191 | 57.63% | elected |
| 2011-05-02 | Wellington—Halton Hills (ON) | Conservative | 35,132 | 63.70% | elected |
| 2015-10-19 | Wellington—Halton Hills (ON) | Conservative | 32,482 | 50.90% | elected |
| 2019-10-21 | Wellington—Halton Hills (ON) | Conservative | 33,044 | 47.40% | elected |
| 2021-09-20 | Wellington—Halton Hills (ON) | Conservative | 35,257 | 52.11% | elected |
| 2025-04-28 | Wellington—Halton Hills North (ON) | Conservative | 33,736 | 50.60% | elected |
Contact
michael.chong@parl.gc.ca · 613-992-4179
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A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (805 here) and pairings (11) 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.
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