Federal Politics
Goldring is an independent MP in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Edmonton East since 2004, Edmonton Centre-East since 2000, and Edmonton East from 1997 to 2000. He has also been a member of the Reform Party of Canada, (1997–2000) and the Canadian Alliance (2000–2003). From 2003 until 2011 he was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada; he resigned from the Conservative caucus in December 2011 while facing charges of impaired driving. He has since sat as an independent member of the House of Commons with a Conservative affiliation.
Goldring is a former businessman and manager. Goldring is the former official opposition critic of Homelessness, Veterans Affairs, Public Works and Government Services, and Public Housing. In 2004, Goldring visited the Turks and Caicos Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean to explore the possibility of annexation of the islands to Canada.
In September 2004, Goldring was appointed as the Conservative Party Foreign Affairs Critic for the Caribbean. A week after the passage of Hurricane Ivan over Grenada, Goldring visited the islands of Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, and Grenada, touring much of the destruction left on Grenada. Upon returning to Canada, Goldring pressed the government for much needed assistance for Grenada.
As reported by the Globe and Mail on February 19, 2010, Goldring sent out a pamphlet to his constituents describing Louis Riel as a villain with blood on his hands who stood in the way of Confederation. He also resisted calls to overturn Riel's conviction for treason and for him to be named a Father of Confederation. According to Métis historians and scholars George and Terry Goulet Goldring's pamphlet was "riddled with numerous egregious errors and many omissions".
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