[2] McTeague also aided in securing the release of other Canadians from detention abroad, including Abdullah Al-Malki, Muyadad Nureddin and Al-Matti.
[3] His earlier legislative achievements included a bill passing into law the recognition of the third week in April as the Annual Donor Organ Week and setting Parliamentary precedent as the first backbench MP to successfully amend the Criminal Code and see his bill making fleeing a peace officer using a vehicle unlawful.
[4] On November 22, 2005, McTeague asked Immigration Minister Joe Volpe to restrict rapper 50 Cent from entering Canada, citing the death of a constituent at the performer's previous concert in Toronto in 2004.
[5] 50 Cent's tour went on as scheduled but McTeague's intervention succeeded in seeing at least half of the accompanying members of the rapper's troupe, the G-Unit, banned in Canada as a result of the objections.
[6] With Canadian troops facing casualties in Afghanistan, McTeague criticized the government practice of docking injured soldier's "operational pay" once out of theatre.
Under the Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), introduced in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's 2008 budget, there was no deduction for annual contributions.
[15] McTeague, along with Jack Layton of the NDP, on February 4, 2011 attended a rally in Toronto organized by Calvin Tennant against an internet usage based billing decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).