Chin Lee ( zh, c=李振光, p=Lǐ Zhèngguāng) is a former Canadian city councillor in
Toronto
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for Ward 41 Scarborough-Rouge River until his resignation in May 2018.
Lee was elected to Toronto City Council in the November 2006 civic elections for Ward 41 -
Scarborough—Rouge River. He replaced former councillor and MPP
Bas Balkissoon. Lee is also a member of the
Scarborough Community Council.
Lee was one of
Toronto City Council
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's three appointees to the seven-member
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from 2010 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2018.
He is one of four councillors of Asian heritage elected to city council in Toronto in 2014, the other three being Councillor
Denzil Minnan-Wong
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, Councillor
Kristyn Wong-Tam
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and
Korean
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born, Councillor
Raymond Cho.
Born to Chinese-Malaysian parents, his grandparents came from the Kaiping/Taishan region of the Guangdong province in China.
Community activism
Prior to entering politics Chin Lee served as President of the Goldhawk Community Association, serving the northeast Scarborough Community.
He was a founding member of Scarborough Needs Accountable Politicians (SNAP), a community organization that was created to oppose pay increases that Scarborough School Board Trustees approved for themselves.
Chin Lee, along with other community leaders such as
Bas Balkissoon formed Scarborough Homeowners Alliance for Fair Taxation (SHAFT), a grassroots taxpayer group that fought to make changes to the Province of Ontario's property assessment system.
On October 27, 2017, Lee announced that he would be seeking the
Liberal nomination for the
2018 provincial election in
Scarborough North. On November 6, 2017, he was acclaimed as the candidate.
In the general election, he placed third, losing to incumbent
Progressive Conservative MPP
Raymond Cho by more than a two-to-one margin and placing behind the
New Democratic candidate.
Election results
References
External links
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Living people
Canadian people of Malaysian descent
Toronto city councillors
Canadian people of Chinese descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian municipal councillors