PeterTabuns
Toronto–Danforth
Standing up for Toronto–Danforth
- Critic for Energy and the Climate Crisis.
- Voted Best MPP by readers of NOW Magazine twice.
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For the 2018 election, Peter is one of only seven Ontario candidates endorsed by the non-partisan environmental group GreenPAC. Peter is also endorsed by two teacher’s unions: Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (Toronto) and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (Toronto Secondary).
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Peter is the NDP critic for energy and for environment and climate change issues. He’s a leader in the fight to end the privatization of Hydro, keep communities safe from toxins and protect our future from the effects of climate change.
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Peter has also served as adviser to Jack Layton on climate change, a Toronto councillor and the executive director of Greenpeace Canada. He’s done government relations for the Ontario Nurses Association and chaired Toronto’s Board of Health.
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Peter has an adult son, Anton, and lives with his partner, Shawn Kerwin. She’s a professor and theatre designer.
Some of Peter’s accomplishments, so far, for Toronto-Danforth, include:
- stopping a high voltage transmission line from being built down Donlands Avenue
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helping local community groups restore needed funding
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setting up mobile clinics to serve constituents
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leading the fight to stop door-to-door energy marketers
Because of Peter’s work in the legislature:
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renters in buildings put up after 1991 are now under rent control
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students have legal protection to use the title Gay-Straight Alliance in their schools
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parents who lose a child can get a leave of absence without losing their jobs
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June 22 is Chinese-Canadian Head Tax Redress Day
Peter continues his fight to:
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protect us from climate change
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make sure Ontario restores operating funding for our overcrowded public transit
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set up real rent control and build affordable housing
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make the fossil fuel companies liable for the harm they cause
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restore a publicly-owned hydro system
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create universal dental care and pharmacare
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see that parents can afford good quality child care in their community