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Portrait of Matt Strauss. Photo: House of Commons

Matt Strauss

Conservative · Kitchener South—Hespeler, ON

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Biography

Matthew Steven Strauss is a Canadian physician and politician who has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Kitchener South—Hespeler since 2025. He is the riding's first Conservative MP. Strauss was acting medical officer of health for the public health unit (PHU) serving Haldimand and Norfolk from 2021 to 2023. He previously practiced internal medicine and was an assistant professor at Queen's University. encyclopedia

Born
Kitchener
Languages
Englishofficial
Occupation before politics
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Electoral history

  1. Kitchener South—Hespeler

    Conservative · 45th ParliamentSince 2025-04-28
    Matt Strauss28,973
    Valerie BradfordRunner-up · Liberal27,945

    Difference 1,028 votes. 4 other candidates also ran.

    On the official list the riding is Kitchener South--Hespeler.

    Elections Canada, 45th general election.

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Education

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    Experience

    Our sources do not list any previous employment for this member.

      In their own words

      714 Hansard interventions on file. These are the words said in the House, not a summary. Private conversations are not collected and are not invented.

      Mr. Speaker, Bruce Kennedy was born and raised in the Waterloo region. He founded Stance Healthcare, based in south Kitchener, where they manufacture furniture for hospitals. They employ 125 of my friends and neighbours. They are a homegrown success story, but now they are suffer…Statements by Members — Impact of Tariffs · 2026-09-22

      Where they stand

      Policy positions are scored only from this member's stored House words and, when it is on file, their own public website. Wikipedia and other encyclopedias may supply details such as a birth date, education or work history, and each of those details is labelled with its source, but they are never used to score a position. Members whose only sources are encyclopedias have no scored positions.

      A stored score on 6 of 14 topics. Each row names the end of that topic’s axis the stored words reached, and the sentence the score rests on.

      Climate

      Slower phase-down, production first

      The other end of this axis: Faster fossil phase-down

      Excerpts repeat opposition to carbon tax and EV mandates, favoring production and consumer choice.

      Let me explain something very simple: Global warming is a global problem. When we put in taxes that drive manufacturing down south, where gas-powered vehicles are made that could have been made in Canada, it does not reduce carbon emissions globally. It is a nonsense policy, and the Liberals should get rid of it today.
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      Energy

      Expand production and export

      The other end of this axis: Restrict new oil and gas

      Excerpts repeat opposition to carbon tax and EV mandates that hurt gas vehicle production.

      Number six is to get rid of the industrial carbon tax. It makes no sense. Let me explain something very simple: Global warming is a global problem. When we put in taxes that drive manufacturing down south, where gas-powered vehicles are made that could have been made in Canada, it does not reduce carbon emissions globally. It is a nonsense policy, and the Liberals should get rid of it today.
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      Federalism

      Provinces lead

      The other end of this axis: Ottawa leads

      Excerpts defend provincial jurisdiction and criticize national carbon tax as contradictory.

      One part of his speech that I admired most was his defence of provincial jurisdiction. I think it is important that the people who would be most affected by a policy be the ones who design it, so then I was surprised when he said that he thinks the national carbon tax was critical for fighting climate change. Does he not find that a bit contradictory with what is otherwise his defence of provincial jurisdiction? Would he maybe provide some comments on the fact that in the United States, carbon emissions per capita have gone down by a greater
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      Health

      More private delivery

      The other end of this axis: Expand public coverage

      Favors blending free market with public insurance.

      If we look at France, Germany, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand, all across the world other developed nations are able to blend the free market and public insurance, which I favour, in ways that are more appropriate than in our system.
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      Housing

      Market supply and deregulation

      The other end of this axis: Public supply and demand controls

      Excerpts criticize bureaucratic barriers and support builders over regulation.

      Builders build homes; housing ministers do not build homes. That is why we have had housing minister after housing minister from the Liberal side promise to solve the housing crisis.
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      Public safety

      Enforcement and sentencing

      The other end of this axis: Prevention and restraint

      Calls to repeal soft-on-crime bill.

      I have a very simple question: Why not go back to how it was? Why does the Liberal justice minister not simply repeal his soft-on-crime bill, Bill C-75?
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      8 topics with no stored score
      • AgricultureNo position has been scored.
      • DefenceNo position has been scored.
      • Financial regulationNo position has been scored.
      • Fiscal policyNo position has been scored.
      • Foreign affairsNo position has been scored.
      • ImmigrationNo position has been scored.
      • LabourNo position has been scored.
      • TradeNo position has been scored.

      Who lines up

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