Anthony Housefather

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Anthony Housefather (born January 25, 1970) is a Canadian politician, lawyer, and athlete who has served as a Member of Parliament representing the riding of Mount Royal on the island of Montreal since 2015. He was first elected to office in 1994 as a municipal councillor in the Town of Hampstead. When Hampstead and all the other cities on the Montreal island were forced to merge into the City of Montreal by the Parti Québécois government in 2001, he was elected as a municipal councillor in the borough of Côte Saint-Luc-Hampstead-Montreal West. Housefather then led the demerger movement in his borough. Following the successful demerger of all three municipalities as determined in a referendum on June 20, 2004, he was elected Mayor of the City of Côte Saint-Luc, and served from 2005 until 2015, when he resigned following his election to Parliament. Housefather was first elected to Parliament in the Canadian federal election of October 2015. From 2015 to 2019, Housefather served as the Chair...

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