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Matthew Green
MP
Member of Parliament
for Hamilton Centre
Assumed office
October 21, 2019
Preceded by David Christopherson
Hamilton, Ontario City Councillor
In office
December 1, 2014 – December 1, 2018
Preceded by Bob Morrow
Succeeded by Nrinder Nann
Constituency Ward 3 (Hamilton Centre)
Personal details
Born (1980-09-10) September 10, 1980 (age 44)
Hamilton, Ontario
Political party New Democratic Party
Residence Hamilton, Ontario

Matthew Green MP (born September 10, 1980) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Hamilton Centre in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election, and re-elected in 2021.

Early life

Green was born and raised in Hamilton, and received a degree in political science from Acadia University. He later attended McMaster University in Hamilton.

Career

First elected to the Hamilton City Council in 2014, he led the way for the city to become the first in Ontario to license and regulate payday lending. In 2018, he became the executive director of the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI), a non-profit organization that promotes racial equality.

Green has stated that the example set by Lincoln Alexander, the first Black Canadian MP and a former Hamilton politician, helped inspire him to get into politics. Green joined the NDP in 2017 after being inspired by Jagmeet Singh's stance against racial profiling.

Prior to his election to the House of Commons, he was the first Black Canadian to serve on the Hamilton City Council, where he represented Ward 3 from 2014 to 2018. Ideologically, Green identifies as a "Stanley Knowles New Democrat".

In 43rd Canadian Parliament

One of Green's claims to fame is that he is the first Black Canadian to represent Hamilton in Parliament since Lincoln Alexander.

As an MP, Green has been an outspoken opponent of police brutality, and has endorsed a nationwide ban on the use of tear gas.

In 44th Canadian Parliament

Green was re-elected on 20 September 2021 in the 2021 Canadian federal election to a hung parliament, its 44th Canadian Parliament.

In a July 2021 interview with American socialist magazine Jacobin, given jointly with his NDP colleague Leah Gazan, Green endorsed a national wealth tax.

In March 2022, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh nominated Green to serve on the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency which had the mission to investigate the Freedom Convoy.

On the DECD Committee

Early in the life of the DECD committee, Green said that committee members "have a 'responsibility' to work together" in light of the disagreement of the Conservative Official Opposition over the constitution of the committee. It consisted of seven MPs and four senators. On 6 March 2022 co-chair Green was "interested in looking at the actions of police (or the lack of them), the role played by 'dark money' raised through" the GoFundMe and GiveSendGo crowdfunding platforms, even though the latter issue had been thoroughly debunked three days earlier when the FINA committee interviewed two executives from GoFundMe who testified that 86 per cent of the donors to the original GoFundMe campaign were Canadian, and 88 per cent of the donated funds to the original campaign were from Canadians.

Electoral record

Canadian federal election, 2021: Hamilton Centre
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic Matthew Green 20,105 48.7 +2.54
Liberal Margaret Bennett 10,941 26.5 -2.17
Conservative Fabian Grenning 6,209 15.0 +0.63
PPC Kevin Barber 2,637 6.4 +4.51
Green Avra Caroline Weinstein 1,105 2.7 -4.94
Communist Nigel Cheriyan 184 0.4 –
Independent Nathalie Xian Yi Yan 99 0.2 +0.01
Total valid votes/expense limit 44,122 99.09
Total rejected ballots 351 0.84 -0.07
Turnout 41,631 56.39 -2.69
Eligible voters 73,832
New Democratic hold Swing +2.66
Source: Elections Canada
Canadian federal election, 2019: Hamilton Centre
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Matthew Green 20,368 46.16 +0.60 $71,015.33
Liberal Jasper Kujavsky 12,651 28.67 -4.72 $79,469.65
Conservative Monica Ciriello 6,341 14.37 -0.28 $13,186.90
Green Jason Lopez 3,370 7.64 +3.31 none listed
PPC Melina Mamone 833 1.89 – none listed
Christian Heritage Gary Duyzer 182 0.41 – none listed
Independent Tony Lemma 158 0.36 – $2,716.24
Independent Edward Graydon 134 0.30 – none listed
Independent Nathalie Xian Yi Yan 85 0.19 – none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit 44,122 99.09
Total rejected ballots 405 0.91 +0.26
Turnout 44,527 59.08 -0.34
Eligible voters 75,371
New Democratic hold Swing +2.66
Source: Elections Canada
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Candidate Popular vote Expenditures
Votes  % ±%
Matthew Green 2,852 40.72% – $31,380.20
Ralph Agostino 1,229 17.55% – $22,900.91
Drina Omazic 825 11.78% – $27,000.76
Mark DiMillo 525 7.50% −2.63% n/a1
Sean Gibson 361 5.15% −8.53% n/a1
Tim Simmons 334 4.77% – $15,087.14
Bob Assadourian 330 4.71% – $26,412.29
Brian Kelly 172 2.46% – $5,670.73
Maria Anastasiou 93 1.33% – n/a1
Byron Wayne Millette 73 1.04% – n/a1
Eva John 55 0.79% – n/a1
Carlos Pinho 51 0.73% – n/a1
Victor Mejia 42 0.60% – n/a1
Bernie Szajkowski 41 0.59% – $0
Jol Hess 21 0.30% – n/a1
Total votes 7,113 29.59% −1.41
Registered voters 24,035 100%
1 These candidates did not submit official Financial Statements and are, therefore, ineligible to run in the
2018 Municipal election
Note: All Hamilton Municipal Elections are officially non-partisan.
Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: City of Hamilton, "Nominated Candidates"
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