Mac Harb

Mac Harb (Arabic: ماك حرب‎; born November 10, 1953) is a Canadian Senator and former Member of the House of Commons.

Life and career

Harb was born in Chaat, Lebanon and immigrated to Canada to study at the University of Ottawa. He subsequently worked as an engineer at Northern Telecom and a professor at Algonquin College in Ottawa. Harb was elected to Ottawa City Council in 1985 and served as deputy mayor in 1987 and 1988.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre. He supported Jean Chrétien's bid to succeed John Turner as leader of the Liberal Party in 1990, and remained a Chrétien loyalist throughout his career as an MP. Harb endorsed Dalton McGuinty's bid to lead the Liberal Party of Ontario in 1996 (Canada NewsWire, 19 August 1996).

In September 2003, Harb was appointed to the Canadian Senate on Chrétien's recommendation.

In March 2009, Harb attempted to introduce a bill that would have limited the East Coast seal hunt only to those with aboriginal treaty rights. In a highly unusual turn of events, no other Senator would second Harb's proposed legislation, so the bill could not receive even first reading. Other senators could not recall the last time a bill failed to be seconded.^[1]

Controversy

On 25 June 2011, the Globe and Mail alleged that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating Senator Harb for misuse of a special passport as part of his efforts in lobbying for Niko Resources, a company that paid a $9.5 million (Canadian) fine for bribing an official in Bangladesh.^[2]

References

External links

• Mac Harb - Parliament of Canada biography
• Liberal Senate Forum

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