Chris Moise | |
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Toronto City Councillor forWard 13 Toronto Centre | |
Assumed office November 15, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Robin Buxton Potts |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Canadian |
Political party | Independent |
Other political affiliations | New Democratic |
Chris Moise is a Canadian politician who was elected to representWard 13 Toronto Centre onToronto City Council following the2022 Toronto municipal election.[1]
He previously ran as anOntario New Democratic Party candidate forOak Ridges in the1999 Ontario general election[2] and forBrampton West—Mississauga in the2003 Ontario general election,[3] and as a federalNew Democratic Party candidate forBrampton West in the2004 Canadian federal election.[4]
He ran for election to theToronto District School Board in the2014 Toronto municipal election, losing to incumbent trustee Sheila Ward;[5] following Ward's death in office in 2016, he won the resulting by-election.[6] In the2018 Toronto municipal election, he initially registered to run for city council as a candidate in Ward 25;[7] however, after the provincial government ofDoug Ford passed legislation cutting the size of the city council in half by aligning ward boundaries with provincial and federal electoral district boundaries in the city, which would have pitted him against incumbent Ward 27 councillorKristyn Wong-Tam in the new Ward 13, he withdrew from the race and ran for another term on the school board, winning re-election.[8]
Moise is aBlack Canadian, and openlygay.[9]
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