Randall Garrison

Randall C. Garrison (born August 27, 1950) is a Canadian politician. Elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election, he represented the electoral district of Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke until 2025 as a member of the New Democratic Party. He served as the party's critic for justice, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights and deputy critic for National Defence.

As a member of Parliament, he was known for his work in successfully banning conversion therapy in Canada, adding transgender, gender identity & gender expression to both the Canadian Human Rights Code and hate crimes section of the criminal code, eliminating criminal records for simple possession of drugs, and ending the ban on gay & bisexual men from donating blood. A former criminology and political science instructor at Camosun College, Garrison is openly gay and married to Teddy Pardede.

Garrison has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations as well as the Esquimalt Police Board. He is also an international human rights activist. He has worked as a policing researcher in Afghanistan with Amnesty International, on a Christian-Muslim peace building project in Indonesia for the International Catholic Migration Commission, and as co-coordinator of IFET, an international non-government human rights observer mission for the East Timor independence referendum in 1999. In May 2010, Garrison served as an international observer with the People's International Observers Mission (PIOM) in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao for the national elections in the Philippines.