PeterTabuns

Toronto–Danforth

Critic for Energy and the Climate Crisis.
Voted Best MPP by readers of NOW Magazine twice.
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).
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.
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.
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
helping local community groups restore needed funding
setting up mobile clinics to serve constituents
leading the fight to stop door-to-door energy marketers

Because of Peter’s work in the legislature:
renters in buildings put up after 1991 are now under rent control
students have legal protection to use the title Gay-Straight Alliance in their schools
parents who lose a child can get a leave of absence without losing their jobs
June 22 is Chinese-Canadian Head Tax Redress Day

Peter continues his fight to:
protect us from climate change
make sure Ontario restores operating funding for our overcrowded public transit
set up real rent control and build affordable housing
make the fossil fuel companies liable for the harm they cause
restore a publicly-owned hydro system
create universal dental care and pharmacare
see that parents can afford good quality child care in their community