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| Affiliation | Progressive Conservative |
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| Name | Raymond Cho |
| Address |
Scarborough, Ontario , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
00, 1936
(88 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | Campari_007
Oct 18, 2012 09:07pm |
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| Info | Raymond Cho is currently (as of September 2005) a City Councillor in Toronto, Canada. He represents Ward 42, Scarborough—Rouge River.
Before being elected, Cho worked as a Social Worker for the Catholic Children's Aid Society, the Toronto Board of Education, and the Scarborough Board of Education.
He was first elected to Metropolitan Toronto Council for Scarborough-Malvern in 1991, and was re-elected in 1994.
At the beginning of 1998, the City of Scarborough was amalgamated with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new City of Toronto.
Cho was elected to the council for the new city representing Scarborough-Malvern. In 2000, he was again re-elected and now represents the new ward of Scarborough Rouge-River.
Cho was Chairman of the Toronto Zoo for two successive terms, and is currently on the Board of Management for the Zoo.
Since his first election, he has mobilized hundreds of volunteers on each year to plant trees in the Rouge Valley. He has organized and delivered over 100,000 pounds of food for the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Cho holds a Masters' degree in Social Work and Doctorate in Education from the University of Toronto.
Cho was a New Democratic Party candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election and was initially identified as a New Democrat when he joined Metro Council, however, he soon became an ally and supporter of then Metropolitan Toronto Chairman Alan Tonks and dropped his NDP affiliation. He subsequently took out membership in the Liberal Party though, like most non-NDP municipal politicians in Ontario he did not run on a party label in muncipal elections.
He ran in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate in Scarborough—Rouge River. Cho called himself an "independent Liberal", and used the Liberal Party of Canada's red-and-white colours for his campaign materials. He was accused of trying to mislead voters by the official Liberal candidate, Derek Lee. Lee won the election, although Cho placed a respectable second with 6,692 votes (17.8% of the total), ahead of the candidates of the other two main parties, the Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party.
In 2005, Cho expressed interest in being the Ontario Liberal Party's candidate in the Scarborough—Rouge River provincial by-election which was made necessary by the appointment of incumbent Liberal MPP Alvin Curling to a diplomatic position. However, the Liberal riding association used a clause of its constitution to declare Bas Balkissoon, City Councillor for Ward 41 (the part of Scarborough—Rouge River not represented by Cho), as its candidate without a contested nomination battle. Media reports suggest that this was done to exclude Cho as the provincial riding association was displeased with Cho's "independent Liberal" candidacy in the aforementioned federal election. Though the provincial and federal Liberal parties have overlapping memberships, they are separate entities and Cho could not simply be denied membership in the provincial party for offending the rules of the federal organization.
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