john d weston mp born april 19 1958 is a canadian politician who was elected to represent the electoral district of west vancouversunshine coastsea to sky country in the 2008 canadian federal election he is a member of the conservative partyweston studied international relations at harvard university and law at osgoode hall law school and is able to speak mandarin as well as french and english he then worked as a lawyer in canada and in taiwan he is a founder of pan pacific law corporation and access law group as well as the canadian constitution foundationweston ran in the 2006 canadian federal election but was defeated by blair wilson weston lost by 15 or 976 votesduring the 40th parliament he served as a member of the aboriginal affairs fisheries and library of parliament standing committees and as the government liaison to the persian and iranian community and as the vice chair of the conservative community relations committeesince being reelected in the 2011 canadian federal election weston has served on the citizenship and immigration committee and as a member of the official languages committeeweston introduced bill c475 which amended the controlled drugs and substances act to make it illegal to possess produce sell or import chemicals with the knowledge they will be used to create street drugs though it was later tabledweston created a national health and fitness day bill saying on a personal level i just saw when i reached ottawa how unhealthy was the lifestyle that mps lead so much time on airplanes and in committees and sitting in parliament i just resolved that if i was going to remain productive and useful to the people who voted me in i needed to work at staying healthyin his column in the tyee political commentator rafe mair has been extremely critical of westons approach to environmental issues and his role as a member of parliament mair has repeatedly accused weston of blindly adhering to conservative party policy on all issues in an article dated january 19 2015 mair alleged that in westons time as an mp he had never uttered a single word of criticism of any statement or action by the conservative government weston and mair are former colleagues from mairs time as a bc mla and his role as minister responsible for constitutional reform during that period weston has responded to mair by claiming that he carefully considers his position on environmental issues and comes to his own decision in a responding letter to the editor weston also stated that mairs critique had ignored the role of the democratic process and denigrated mps role in it