Paul Szabo, BSc, MBA, FCA
Member of Parliament – Mississauga South

Paul Szabo is a Chartered Accountant with a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science with over 20 years of professional and business experience.

Prior to becoming a Member of Parliament, he served as a Director and Vice-Chair of The Mississauga (Trillium) Hospital, a Director of the Peel Regional Housing Authority, and a Director of Interim Place (shelter for abused women and children). In recognition of his charitable work and extensive volunteer community service, Paul was honoured as one of central Canada’s “Five Outstanding Young Canadians”.

Paul has served as the Member of Parliament for Mississauga South since 1993 and has been a member of the Health, Finance, Transport, Environment, Scrutiny of Regulations and Government Operations and Estimates Committees. He has held numerous positions as Committee Chair, Committee Vice-Chair and Parliamentary Secretary and he is currently the Chair of the “Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics” Standing Committee, which conducted the Mulroney / Schreiber hearings.

He has debated in the House of Commons on over 2,000 occasions and has been ranked number one in speaking in the Parliament since 2004. He has a 99% attendance record for votes since 1993 and is a recognized expert in Parliamentary practices and procedures. He has also introduced over 50 Bills and Motions with emphasis on the areas of taxation, health, families, children, poverty and seniors and has authored 6 books related to his parliamentary initiatives.

In May 2009, Mr. Szabo was voted as the “Hardest Working Member of Parliament” for a third consecutive year in the MACLEAN’S Magazine / IPSOS Reid annual survey of all 308 MPs. In July 2009, in recognition of his career achievements and leadership contributions to the community, he was also elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. The FCA designation is the highest honour conferred by the Chartered Accounting profession.

Paul and his wife Linda have been married for 38 years and have three children and three grandchildren.