Brad Butt (born May 10, 1967) is a Canadian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Greater Toronto Area riding of Mississauga—Streetsville from 2011 to 2015.
Before winning his seat in 2011, Butt had been a political commentator on Mississauga Cable 10 for many years, and president & CEO of the Greater Toronto Apartment Association since May 1999.
[4][2] Butt also ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1990 election in the provincial riding of Mississauga East.
[2] Butt provoked controversy in 2012 for making a 'finger gun' gesture at Bob Rae, then leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, pretending to shoot him in the House of Commons.
[7] Butt made headlines during the election when he raised the example of New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair, a dual citizen of Canada and France, as a hypothetical candidate for deportation if he was convicted of treason under the Conservatives' new citizenship bill, C-24.