Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba, from 2015 to 2019. Liberal. Cast 1,140 ballots in recorded divisions and voted against the party line 16 times.
Service
| Riding | Province | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winnipeg Centre | MB | Liberal | 2015-10-19 | 2019-10-21 |
Ballots cast by year
One bar per calendar year: recorded divisions where Robert-Falcon Ouellette 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 Robert-Falcon Ouellette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-04 | Nay | Liberal | C-14 · That the question be now put. |
| 2016-05-04 | Nay | Liberal | C-14 · That, in relation to Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying), not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the Bill; and That, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration at second reading stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment. |
| 2016-05-04 | Nay | Liberal | C-14 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. |
| 2016-05-30 | Yea | Liberal | C-14 · “(3.1) As it relates to medical assistance in dying, no medical practitioner or nurse practitioner may administer a substance to a person if they and the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner referred to in paragraph (3)(e) concur that the person is capable of self-administering the substance.” |
| 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.” |
| 2016-05-30 | Nay | Liberal | C-14 · That Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying), {as amended}, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments] . |
| 2016-05-31 | Nay | Liberal | C-14 · That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. |
| 2016-06-16 | Nay | Liberal | C-14 · That a Message be sent to the Senate to acquaint their Honours that this House: agrees with the amendments numbered 1, 2(d), 2(e), 4, and 5 made by the Senate to Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying); proposes that amendment 2(c)(i) be amended by replacing the text of the amendment with the following text “sistance in dying after having been informed of the means that are available to relieve their suffering, including palliative care.”; proposes that amendment 3 be amended in paragraph (b) by adding after the words “make regulations” the words “that he or she considers necessary”; respectfully disagrees with amendment 2(a) because requiring that a person who assists to be free from any material benefit arising from the patient's death would eliminate from participation the family members or friends most likely to be present at the patient's express wish, and this would violate patient autonomy in a fundamental and inacceptable manner; and respectfully disagrees with amendments 2(b), 2(c)(ii), and 2(c)(iii) because they would undermine objectives in Bill C-14 to recognize the significant and continuing public health issue of suicide, to guard against death being seen as a solution to all forms of suffering, and to counter negative perceptions about the quality of life of persons who are elderly, ill or disabled, and because the House is of the view that C-14 strikes the right balance for Canadians between protection of vulnerable individuals and choice for those whose medical circumstances cause enduring and intolerable suffering as they approach death. |
| 2016-09-21 | Yea | Liberal | C-232 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance. |
| 2016-12-13 | Yea | Liberal | C-306 · That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International 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) |
| 2017-10-25 | Yea | Liberal | C-203 · 2nd reading of Bill C-203, An Act to amend the Supreme Court Act (understanding the official languages) |
| 2018-03-21 | Yea | Liberal | C-373 · 2nd reading of Bill C-373, An Act respecting a federal framework on distracted driving |
| 2018-10-24 | Yea | Liberal | Private Members' Business M-166 (Postal banking system) |
| 2018-11-24 | Nay | Liberal | C-89 · 3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-89, An Act to provide for the resumption and continuation of postal services |
| 2019-04-10 | Yea | Liberal | S-215 · 2nd reading of Bill S-215, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (sentencing for violent offences against Aboriginal women) |
Elections
| Date | Riding | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-19 | Winnipeg Centre (MB) | Liberal | 18,471 | 54.50% | elected |
| 2019-10-21 | Winnipeg Centre (MB) | Liberal | 10,704 | 33.70% | not elected |
Method
A ballot is a yea or a nay. Absences (239 here) and pairings (0) 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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