• Elected the Member of Parliament for Hamilton Centre in 2004, re-elected in 2006
• Member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts
• Chair of the NDP's Ontario Caucus
• Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Steel Caucus
• Served as Solicitor General in the Ontario government
• In 1999 appointed NDP House Leader in the Ontario Legislature
• In 2001 elected Deputy Speaker of the Ontario Legislature
• Past President of CAW Local 525

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