"Ted" Falk MP (born May 23, 1960) is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Provencher, Manitoba, in the House of Commons of Canada.
Falk was first elected as Member of Parliament in the 2013 Provencher by-election, succeeding former cabinet minister Vic Toews, who had retired from politics three months earlier after almost 13 years as the area's MP.
[9] In the 42nd Parliament, under interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, he was appointed Vice Chair of the Justice Committee where he was the only MP to vote against Bill C-16, An act to amend the Criminal Code of Canada to enshrine gender identity rights.
[10] Under newly elected Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, Falk was appointed Deputy Shadow Minister for Employment, Workforce Development and Labour.
[9] In 2017, the small community of Emerson, MB[14] in Falk’s riding made international headlines as hundreds of individuals began to cross illegally into Canada from the United States.
Falk argued that many of those crossing at Emerson (and to an even greater extent at Roxham Road in Quebec[17]), were not genuine refugees as many had lived for years in the United States and they were “hedging their bets” given the policies of the incoming Donald Trump administration.
[18][19] He and other Conservative politicians also argued that a tweet by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that appeared to welcome the migrants to Canada had caused the crisis.