predecessor birth_place party office birth_date term_start residence spouse image article_title name occupation
keith martin bill siksay jasbir sandhu lincoln , nebraska , u.s. new democratic party member ndp critic on lgbtt issues ndp critic on public safety of parliament for esquimalt -- juan de fuca 27 august 1951 june 19 , 2012 2 , 2011 june 9 , 2011 april esquimalt , british columbia teddy pardede randall garrison.jpg randall garrison
 randall garrison criminologist , college instructor
randall garrison

randall c. garrison -lrb- born august 27 , 1951 -rrb- is a canadian politician and member of parliament in the 41st parliament .
elected to the house of commons in the 2011 federal election , he represents the electoral district of esquimalt -- juan de fuca and is a member of the new democratic party .
he serves as the party 's critic for lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender , and transsexual issues , succeeding former mp bill siksay , and for public safety .
since becoming an mp , he has introduced legislation to amend the canadian human rights act and the criminal code , return federal environmental protection to the goldstream river , and lobbied the government to implement an action plan concerning the endangered southern resident killer whales .
a former criminology and political science instructor at camosun college , garrison is openly gay and lives in esquimalt , british columbia , with his partner , teddy pardede .
garrison previously stood for election in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections , both times as the ndp candidate in the esquimalt -- juan de fuca riding and both times narrowly losing to incumbent mp keith martin .
he lived in vancouver for a short time , during which he was nominated to be the ndp candidate in the vancouver centre riding during the 2008 federal election before dropping out for `` personal and professional reasons '' .
after moving back to esquimalt he was elected to the esquimalt city council for a three-year term starting in november 2008 .
garrison has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations as well as the esquimalt police board .
he is also an international human rights activist .
he has worked as a policing researcher in afghanistan with amnesty international , on a christian-muslim peace building project in indonesia for the international catholic migration commission , and as co-coordinator of ifet , an international non-government human rights observer mission for the east timor independence referendum in 1999 .
in may 2010 , garrison served as an international observer with the people 's international observers mission -lrb- piom -rrb- in the autonomous region of muslim mindanao for the national elections in the philippines .
