Chris Moise is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent Ward 13 Toronto Centre on

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following the 2022 Toronto municipal election.

Political career

He previously ran as an

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candidate for Oak Ridges in the

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and for

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in the

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, and as a federal

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candidate for Brampton West in the

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. He ran for election to the

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in the

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, losing to incumbent trustee Sheila Ward; following Ward's death in office in 2016, he won the resulting by-election. In the

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, he initially registered to run for city council as a candidate in Ward 25; however, after the provincial government of

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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 councillor

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in the new Ward 13, he withdrew from the race and ran for another term on the school board, winning re-election. In April 2025, Moise brought a motion to City Council that would make it more difficult for non-profit organizations to obtain temporary liquor licenses for one-off events. The text of the motion notes that it is targeted at suppressing "

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parties". The motion inspired a swift backlash and large petition from the Toronto electronic music community. Moise withdrew the motion on 23 April 2025. Moise is a

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, and openly

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.Rob Salerno
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'', June 21, 2016.

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