Gary Goodyear

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Gary Goodyear

Incumbent
Riding	Cambridge
In office since	2004 election
Preceded by	Janko Peric
Born	March 10, 1958 (age 49) Cambridge, Ontario
Residence	Cambridge
Political party	Conservative
Profession(s)	Chiropractor

Gary Goodyear (born March 10, 1958 in Cambridge, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, having been elected to represent the riding of Cambridge as a Conservative in 2004.

Goodyear was educated at the University of Waterloo, in Biomechanics and Psychology. He attended the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, where he graduated cum laude, was class president, and valedictorian. Goodyear then received fellowships in clinical acupuncture, physiotherapy and sports injury^[1]. He started his full-time practice in Cambridge in 1984 where he was Clinic Director, Director of Patient Services and Past President of Future Recovery Canada. He was a co-designer of the three year post-graduate Sports Fellowship Program. He also co-authored “Practice Guidelines” .^[2]and was Public Relations Director and Past President for the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences in Toronto ^[3]. He was also the health columnist for the Cambridge Times newspaper from 1986 to 1996, and has taught at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and the University of Waterloo.

In the 2004 federal election, Goodyear defeated incumbent Liberal Janko Peric by 224 votes (as confirmed on recount) to win the Cambridge riding. After the election, Goodyear was named Ontario Chair of the Conservative Party caucus^[4]. He was re-elected in 2006 with the endorsement of Vote Marriage Canada^[5], and was also endorsed by the Canadian Islamic Congress receiving a grade of A ^[6] In 2006, he won the riding of Cambridge by almost 6,000 votes.

After the 2006 federal election Goodyear was elected Standing committee chair of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee^[7](of which he chairs the Subcommittee on Parliament Hill Security, and also chairs Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure)^[8] He was also named Chairman of the all-party Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group^[9]

[edit] External links

• Gary Goodyear's Homepage
• Federal Political Experience

Preceded by Janko Peric

Member of Parliament for Cambridge 2004-

Succeeded by Incumbent

[edit] Electoral Record

2006 federal election : Cambridge (electoral district) edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	(x)Gary Goodyear	25,337
	Liberal	Janko Peric	19,419
	New Democratic Party	Donna Reid	9,794
	Green	Gareth White	3,017
	Canadian Action Party	David Pelly	217
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Electors on lists

2004 federal election : Cambridge (electoral district) edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Gary Goodyear	19,123
	(x)Liberal	Janko Peric	18,899
	New Democratic Party	Gary Price	10,392
	Green	Gareth White	2,506
	Christian Heritage Party	John Gots	395
	Independent	John Oprea	134
	Independent	Alec Gryc	114
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Electors on lists

[edit] Footnotes