Underrepresented in the House, Asian-Canadian MPs say more Asian faces needed in Ottawa:
When Conservative MP Michael Chong was first elected to the House of Commons in 2004, he was surprised to find out that he was the first-ever MP from Ontario of Chinese background.
Chinese-Canadians have lived in Ontario for more than a century, with almost half-a-million people of Chinese descent living in the province by 2001, and almost 850,000 people as of the 2016 federal census. Before Mr. Chong, there had been only four Chinese-Canadians ever elected to the House—the first, former British Columbia Progressive Conservative MP Douglas Jung, in 1957.
Unsurprisingly Mr Chong is a strong proponent of Proportional Representation.