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Introduction
Dean Allison is a Canadian politician and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2004 federal election for the riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook, now Niagara West. Allison is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and has been re-elected in each subsequent election.
Early life
Name | Dean Allison |
Net Worth | $5 million |
Occupation | Politician |
Age | 58 years |
Height | 1.75m |
Dean Allison MP was born on February 18, 1965 (age 58 years) in London, Ontario, Canada. Allison holds a degree in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University. Upon graduation, Allison established himself in the Niagara area by accumulating businesses and working for a major franchise organization. Outside of his capacities as a Member of Parliament, Allison also owns a private equity firm that assists small businesses and startups.
Allison has served as president of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation, as president of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, director of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and board member of Junior Achievement in Niagara. Allison is also a founding member of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in Canada and Belarus’ Children of Chernobyl program that brings children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to Canada.
Political career
Dean Allison first ran for federal politics as the Canadian Alliance candidate in the Erie-Lincoln riding in 2000. Allison received 37.1% of the vote but was defeated by Liberal candidate John Maloney who received 42.2% of the votes. He ran and was elected, in the 2004 election as the Conservative candidate for Niagara West-Glanbrook.
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Allison has won the subsequent federal elections for Niagara West-Glanbrook. In 2015, as a result of riding redistribution, the name was changed to Niagara West. The riding now consists of Grimsby, Lincoln, West Lincoln, Wainfleet, Pelham and a portion of west St. Catharines.
In the 2021 federal election, Allison won his seventh consecutive election and returned to the House of Commons as the MP for Niagara West. Since taking office, Allison has served on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, and International Trade and as past chair of the Standing Committee on Human Resources Skills Development and Status of Persons with Disabilities and has also served on the advisory panel on the Funding of Officers of Parliament.
He has also served as vice chair of the Ontario Conservative Caucus and been on the executive of the Interparliamentary Union Association and the Commonwealth Association. In the 42nd Parliament, Allison served as the Shadow Minister for International Trade as well as the vice-chair of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
Dean Allison is also a director of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly. He has tabled a number of different legislative initiatives in Parliament including a bill aimed at removing the faint hope clause from the Criminal Code, and motions to entrench property rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to raise awareness of Anaphylaxis.
Allison was one of thirteen Canadians banned from traveling to Russia under retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2014. After the House of Commons introduced a vaccine mandate, Allison claimed a medical exemption. He attended House meetings virtually.
In February 2023, Dean Allison, along with fellow Conservative MPs Leslyn Lewis and Colin Carrie, had dinner with Christine Anderson, a Member of the European Parliament representing Alternative for Germany, who was on a Canadian tour of right-wing media and convoy protest supporters. The meeting was condemned by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau among others, for Anderson and AfD’s Islamophobic and antisemitic positions.
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre also denounced Anderson’s views as “vile”, and racist, and said that “it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place”. The three MPs released a joint statement saying that while meetings with foreign elected officials are ordinary, they were unaware of her or her party’s views and that they condemned racist and hateful views.
Wife
Dean Allison is a married man and has kids with his wife.
Dean Allison net worth
How much is Dean Allison worth? Dean Allison net worth is estimated at around $5 million. His main source of income is from his primary work as a politician. Dean Allison’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $450,000 dollars annually. His remarkable achievements have earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. He is one of the richest and most influential politicians in Canada. He stands at an appealing height of 1.75m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.