riding predecessor parliament birth_place imagesize party birth_date term_start residence article_title name
brossard -- la prairie alexandra mendès canadian montreal , quebec , canada 200px new democratic party 14 june 1973 2011 brossard , quebec hoang mai -lrb- politician -rrb-
 hoang mai
hoang mai -lrb- politician -rrb-

hoang mai -lrb- born june 14 , 1973 -rrb- is a canadian politician , who was elected as a new democratic party member of parliament for brossard -- la prairie in the 2011 canadian federal election .
born in montreal to vietnamese immigrant parents , he and caucus colleague anne minh-thu quach were the second and third people of vietnamese descent , following Ève-mary thaï thi lac , ever elected to the canadian house of commons .
shortly after the election mai was named to the official opposition shadow cabinet as critic for national revenue .
he was also the first vice-chair of the standing committee on finance -lrb- fina -rrb- in the house of commons .
in january 2013 , he was named deputy critic for justice and began to sit on the justice and human rights committee .
since march 2014 , he is the official opposition transport critic , replacing olivia chow , who resigned and campaigned to become mayor of toronto .
he is member of the canada-vietnam and canada-china parliamentary associations .
mai ran in brossard -- la prairie in the 2008 federal election , but lost .
