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Michael Chong

PEP · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Michael Chong is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Michael Chong · Майкл Чонг · مايكل تشونج · ميخائيل تشونغ · 莊文浩 · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Michael D. Chong · Michael David Chong · Майкл Чонг · 莊文浩 · 마이클 데이비드 총				[sources]
Weak alias	庄文浩				[sources]
Birth date	1971-11-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Windsor				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Canada				[sources]
Citizenship	Canada				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	michael.chong@parl.gc.ca				[sources]
First name	David · Michael				[sources]
Last name	Chong · Zhuang				[sources]
Political association	Conservative · Conservative Party of Canada				[sources]
Title	Hon.				[sources]
Website	www.michaelchong.ca · michaelchong.ca · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3308109				[sources]
Position	House of Commons (member, 2011-2015) · House of Commons (member, 2015-) · Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (2006-2006) · President of the King's Privy Council for Canada (2006-2006) · member of parliament · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	Trinity College				[sources]
Address	Wellington—Halton Hills North, Ontario				[sources]
Source link	www.ourcommons.ca				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-16	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

MP

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-03-08

Canadian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	Ministry of Foreign Affairs		2021-03-27	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs	2006-02-06	2006-11-26

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,202

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,414

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

China Sanctions Research256

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Canada Members of the House of Commons379

Current Members of the Canadian lower chamber, the House of Commons

Canada · House of Commons of Canada

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,008

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata328,054

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-00e911f6-0d61-467a-a96d-33257c7f0bf1 · ca-commons-person-25488

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