The Honourable

Sean Fraser

Liberal · Central Nova, NS

Sitting MPmale42

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Biography

Sean Simon Andrew Fraser is a Canadian lawyer and politician who is the minister of justice and Attorney General of Canada. A member of the Liberal Party, Fraser has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova since 2015. He joined Cabinet in 2021 as the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, and was the minister of housing, infrastructure and communities from 2023 to 2024. Fraser took on his current role in 2025 and concurrently minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. encyclopedia

Born: 1984-06-01, Antigonishencyclopedia
Languages: Englishofficial
Occupation before politics: lawyer, politicianencyclopedia

House of Commons profile [email protected]Wikipedia entry

Electoral history

Central Nova
Liberal · 45th ParliamentSince 2025-04-28
Sean Fraser26,078
Brycen JenkinsRunner-up · Conservative21,465
Difference 4,613 votes. 4 other candidates also ran.
Elections Canada, 45th general election.
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Central Nova
Liberal · 44th Parliament2021-09-20 to 2025-04-27
Sean Fraser18,682
Steven CotterRunner-up · Conservative13,060
Difference 5,622 votes. 6 other candidates also ran.
Elections Canada, 44th general election.
encyclopedia
Central Nova
Liberal · 43rd Parliament2019-10-21 to 2021-09-19
Sean Fraser20,718
George CanyonRunner-up · Conservative13,201
Difference 7,517 votes. 5 other candidates also ran.
Elections Canada, 43rd general election.
encyclopedia
Central Nova
Liberal · 42nd Parliament2015-10-19 to 2019-10-19
Sean Fraser25,909
Fred DeLoreyRunner-up · Conservative11,418
Difference 14,491 votes. 3 other candidates also ran.
Elections Canada, 42nd general election.
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Education

St. Francis Xavier UniversityDegree not recordedYears not recordedencyclopedia
Leiden UniversityDegree not recordedYears not recordedencyclopedia

Experience

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

Government roles

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities AgencyDepartment of Justice
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In their own words

5,035 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, my colleague is well aware that we introduced a bill to combat serious crime in our communities and to make the criminal justice system tougher on those who commit offences. We have not only put forward laws that are going to do more to keep violent offenders behin…Oral Questions — Justice · 2026-09-23

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 8 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

Faster fossil phase-down

The other end of this axis: Slower phase-down, production first

Excerpts repeat support for carbon pricing, emissions reductions, and urgent action on climate change while acknowledging the need for transition.

For me, the starting point in this conversation is that climate change is not only real but primarily driven by humans' industrial activity.

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Defence

Higher spending and more capability

The other end of this axis: Restrain spending and deployments

Excerpts support investments in military mental health care and housing for Canadian Armed Forces.

If we can afford to send our citizens to war, we can afford to take care of them when they come home, full stop. The Canadian Forces are in a mental health crisis.

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Energy

Restrict new oil and gas

The other end of this axis: Expand production and export

excerpt repeats positive framing of global shift to clean energy

A pandemic, a war, a global shift to clean energy - noble things worth navigating LEARN MORE About affordability for Central Nova History making and life-changing childcare affordability.

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Fiscal policy

Lower taxes and tighter spending

The other end of this axis: Higher taxes and public spending

excerpt repeats support for cutting income taxes for millions of Canadians

The Bill will cut income taxes for 22 Million Canadians beginning July 1, which will save households up to $840 a year. Don’t let anybody tell you that because we come from a small region, we can’t do big things.

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Health

Expand public coverage

The other end of this axis: More private delivery

excerpt repeats support for universal pharmacare and dental coverage

Today, PEI became the first province to sign an agreement with Canada’s Minister of Health Patty Hajdu and the federal government to accelerate the implementation of a national universal pharmacare system. I am hopeful that other provinces, including Nova Scotia, will soon be in a position to do the same.

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Housing

Public supply and demand controls

The other end of this axis: Market supply and deregulation

excerpt repeats federal agency and capital to build more homes

Recently, we launched Build Canada Homes, a new agency with access to federal land and $13 Billion in capital to help build more affordable housing and create good paying jobs for the people who build it. Viola’s Way in New Glasgow will be a terrific new gathering place for the community that honours not only Viola Desmond’s defence of racial equality but changemakers from the African Nova Scotian community more broadly who have been living in this region for more than 400 years.

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Public safety

Enforcement and sentencing

The other end of this axis: Prevention and restraint

excerpts repeat support for bail and sentencing reforms to keep violent offenders behind bars

For our part, we have advanced a series of major legal reforms to ensure that criminals who commit serious crimes that pose a danger to the public find themselves behind bars. We also believe that the judicial system in Canada should retain its independence to be able to consider a multitude of factors to ensure that the punishment fits the crime in a given set of circumstances.

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Trade

Deeper continental integration

The other end of this axis: Diversify away from one partner

Excerpts support trade agreements such as CETA to expand market access.

We are pursuing trade deals with Europe, for example, through CETA, which has knocked down tariffs for the seafood sector, particularly shellfish, which will help drive the price up for seafood.

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6 topics with no stored score

AgricultureNo position has been scored.
FederalismNo position has been scored.
Financial regulationNo position has been scored.
Foreign affairsNo position has been scored.
ImmigrationNo position has been scored.
LabourNo position has been scored.

Who lines up

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