Andrew Kania (born December 7, 1967) is a former
Canadian Member of Parliament for the
electoral district
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...
of
Brampton West
Brampton West (french: Brampton-Ouest) is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. Its population was 170,422 in 2006- making it the ...
, in
Ontario. Kania was elected in the
2008 Canadian federal election
The 2008 Canadian federal election was held on October 14, 2008, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 40th Canadian Parliament after the 39th Canadian Parliament, previous parliament had been dissolved by Governor General of ...
, winning as the
Liberal Party candidate in the riding vacated by Liberal
Colleen Beaumier
Colleen Beaumier (born November 8, 1944) is a Canadian politician, who served in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2008.
Pre-politics
Born in Chatham, Ontario, she studied at the University of Windsor ...
.
Kania was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security; the Liaison Committee, which has a supervisory role over all parliamentary committees; and also the House Joint Chair of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations.
Biography
Kania received his first law degree from the
University of Toronto and then completed his
Master of Laws at
University of Leicester. He joined the
Ontario Bar
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO; french: Barreau de l'Ontario) is the law society responsible for the self-regulation of lawyers and paralegals in the Canadian province of Ontario. Founded in 1797 as the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC; f ...
in 1991. Kania was elected secretary of the Ontario Bar Association, which represents more than 17,000 lawyers. He was also a past instructor of law at the Bar Admission Course at the
Law Society of Upper Canada.
Kania was the outreach director and Ontario co-chair for
Stéphane Dion's 2006 leadership campaign, and the national outreach director for
Michael Ignatieff's 2008 leadership campaign.
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Electoral record
References
External links
Official website
on Wayback Machine, February 27, 2011
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Living people
1967 births
21st-century Canadian politicians
Alumni of the University of Leicester
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Politicians from Brampton
Politicians from Toronto
University of Toronto alumni
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