Michael Levitt (politician)
Michael Levitt | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for York Centre | |
| Assumed office October 19, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Mark Adler |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 9, 1970[1] Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence(s) | Toronto, Ontario |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
Michael Levitt MP is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of York Centre in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.[2][3]
Born and raised in Scotland, Levitt came with his family to Canada when he was 14.[4]
Levitt serves as Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and Chair of the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group.[5]
Before running for office, Levitt was a founding member of the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee, co-chaired Liberal Friends of Israel, and served as a Partner and Vice-President of Business Development for the Benjamin Group in Toronto, a company providing lifecycle services to Toronto's Jewish community.[6] He has also served on the boards of Mount Sinai Hospital and the Koffler Centre for the Arts, both located in Toronto.[7]
On August 4, 2020, Levitt announced he would be resigning as an MP, effective September 1, 2020, to become the President and CEO of the Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies.[8]
Electoral record
| 2019 Canadian federal election: York Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Michael Levitt | 21,680 | 50.2 | +3.32 | ||||
| Conservative | Rachel Willson | 15,852 | 36.7 | -7.29 | ||||
| New Democratic | Andrea Vásquez Jiménez | 4,251 | 9.8 | +2.47 | ||||
| Green | Rebecca Wood | 1,403 | 3.2 | +1.40 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 43,186 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 665 | |||||||
| Turnout | 43,851 | 62.5 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 70,133 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Michael Levitt | 20,109 | 46.9 | +13.7 | – | |||
| Conservative | Mark Adler | 18,893 | 44.0 | -4.5 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Hal Berman | 3,148 | 7.3 | -8.6 | – | |||
| Green | Constantine Kritsonis | 794 | 1.8 | -0.5 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 42,944 | 100.0 | $198,299.74 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 319 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 43,263 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 64,297 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[11][12] | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Profile". lop.parl.ca. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
- ^ InsideToronto.com. "YORK CENTRE: Liberal Michael Levitt unseats Conservative Mark Adler". www.insidetoronto.com. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
- ^ Morales, Steve. "Michael Levitt recaptures Liberal stronghold York Centre". Retrieved 2016-09-28.
- ^ "Update: Getting to know 12 new Toronto Liberals you might not have heard of | Metro News". Retrieved 2016-09-28.
- ^ "MICHAEL LEVITT - ROLES - HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA". Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "SIX JEWISH MPS HEAD TO OTTAWA". Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Michael Levitt Biography". Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Toronto Liberal MP resigns to helm Jewish human rights organization". CBC News. August 4, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
- ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for York Centre, 30 September 2015
- ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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