Steven Blaney Politician

Steven Blaney PC, MP (born April 8, 1965 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician serving as the minister of Public Safety Canada since July 15, 2013 and previously as the minister of Veterans Affairs and minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of the Prime Minister Stephen Harper (May 18, 2011 to July 14, 2013). He represents the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons since the 2006 federal election. Despite his Anglophone-sounding name, Blaney is a francophone.