Alex Nuttall

Prior to his election to the House of Commons, Nuttall served as a city councillor on the Barrie City Council from 2006 until 2014. In 2006, Nuttall received 45.2% of the vote in Ward 10,[2] and in 2010 he was re-elected with 82.7% of the vote.[3]

During his time as a city councillor, Nuttall was employed in the financial services industry.[4] Nuttall is the father of two children.

In 2010, Nuttall sought the Ontario PC Party nomination for Barrie in order to be the candidate for the 2011 Ontario general election. During the campaign, the local PC Party nomination committee reported that they had found irregularities in Nuttall's member recruitment methods for the nomination meeting.[5] An Ontario PC Party document obtained by The Barrie Examiner newspaper revealed that only 41% of 641 membership forms submitted by Nuttall's campaign appeared to be legitimate - 199 of the forms were paid for using new $10 bills bearing consecutive serial numbers (indicating that the bills were likely purchased in a single transaction in the week leading up to the party membership deadline), 111 of the forms appeared to contain falsified signatures (the report claims that a single person had signed as many as 17 forms, and only 15 unique signatures could be identified), and further indicated that another 63 signatures were "suspect". The document concluded that "Since a very large number of membership forms appear to have been signed by people other than the member indicated, it would suggest an organized effort to fabricate signatures." Nuttall denied the allegations of signature fraud, and explained that the sequential nature of the bills was due to volunteers exchanging larger denominations for smaller denomination bills at a local bank, something that was carried out while Nuttall was indisposed in hospital after collapsing during a speech.[6]

On 8 Dec 2010, the nominating committee of Barrie's PC riding association requested that he step down as a candidate. After an internal investigation by the party, his campaign was allowed to continue. In response, the then-president of the Barrie riding association, Fred Hamelin, resigned from his role citing "personal ethics".[7]

Nuttall ended up losing the nomination to Rod Jackson who went on to win the riding in the general election.[8]

Following the 2015 Federal Election, Nuttall was appointed as the Official Opposition Critic for Economic Development for Southern Ontario on November 20, 2015.[9] On April 8, 2016, Nuttall also accepted the role of Official Opposition Critic Deputy Critic for Innovation, Science and Economic Development, as well as Official Opposition Critic for the New Sharing Economy.[10] On August 30, 2017, Nuttall was named Official Opposition Critic for Youth, Sports, and Persons with Disabilities.[11]

During first half of the 42nd Parliament, Nuttall served on the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.[4] Beginning in Fall 2017, he became a member of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.

Nuttall did not run for re-election in the 2019 federal election.[12]

• Alex Nuttall – Parliament of Canada biography