Steven Fletcher
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario
Constituency: Charleswood–St. James–Assiniboia (Manitoba)
 Steven Fletcher was first elected to the House of Commons in 2004 and re-elected in 2006. He served as the Critic for Health and was a member of the Standing Committee on Health. Prior to his election, Mr. Fletcher served for two terms as the president of the student body at the University of Manitoba and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, Wilderness Access Manitoba and Disabled Sail Manitoba. Mr. Fletcher has a master's degree in business administration, the first Canadian quadriplegic to have achieved such a distinction. He is also the first quadriplegic to be elected to the House of Commons. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1972, and he lives in Winnipeg.
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