• Elected Leader of Canada’s NDP in January 2003
• Has served as Member of Parliament for Toronto—Danforth since June 2004
• Elected as Toronto City Councilor six times
• Former President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
• A driving force behind Toronto’s Healthy Cities Program, affordable housing initiatives and Canada’s first municipal AIDS strategy
• Helped create the White Ribbon Campaign to stop violence against women
• Author of two bestselling books, Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis and Speaking Out: Ideas That Work for Canadians
• Received his PhD from York University and has been a professor at four Toronto-area universities
• Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is fluently bilingual
• Married to Olivia Chow; they have two children

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