Jason Kenney
Jason Kenney
Jason Thomas Kenney, PC, MPis a Canadian politician. He has represented the riding of Calgary Midnapore in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Initially elected as a candidate of the Reform Party of Canada, Kenney was re-elected as a Canadian Alliance candidate in 2000, and has since been re-elected four times as the candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 May 1968
thinking path chosen
I think I've chosen the right path.
It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.
choices sometimes good-choices
Sometimes there are no good choices for government.
language sometimes ambiguous
Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.
negativity easy aggressiveness
For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.
believe democracy immigration
I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.
immigration policy
Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.
new-beginnings diversity community
You go to a lot of small communities in rural Alberta and you'll find a degree of diversity that probably hasn't existed in terms of immigration for a century - you'll find the Filipino grocery store, and the African Pentecostal church and maybe a mosque. Albertans are pro-immigration; they're also pro-integration. In my years in this province I cannot recall more than a handful of expressions of xenophobia or nativism that I've encountered. It's the land of new beginnings and fresh starts - it is rare Albertans who trace their roots here back more than a generation or two.
weekend personal-life
I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life.
house values
Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.
country memories past
Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we honour the memory of those who perished and the legacy of those who survived, including many who found refuge in Canada. It is by remembering the tragedies and atrocities of the past that we can equip ourselves to prevent them from happening again. That is why this national tour, which will reach Canadians of all ages and backgrounds, is an important initiative