2010 Municipal Election Candidate

Housing Report Summary

MAYORAL CANDIDATES

D+ A- B

Rob Ford Joe Pantalone George Smitherman

He has not committed to expanding
Municipal Licensing & Standards
powers, does not support landlord
licensing, does not want to build more
affordable housing, does not plan on
supporting or enhancing existing green
initiatives, and makes no mention of
implementing the Lesage Inquiry
Recommendations. He does have a plan
of action for dealing with the Toronto’s
bed bug epidemic and wants to
improve TCHC and ML&S customer
service.
He wants to work with the FMTA and
Municipal Licensing and Standards to
achieve rent freezes/abatements for
negligent landlords and have them support
tenants at Landlord & Tenant Board
hearings. He supports landlord licensing,
will work to build more affordable housing
and improve existing stock, supports
inclusionary zoning, wants to enhance
existing and new green initiatives, will
work with existing partners and City
resources to develop strategies to deal
with bed bug epidemic, and will implement
the Lesage Inquiry Recommendations.
He has not committed to enhancing or
expanding Municipal Licensing and
Standards enforcement, is against
landlord licensing, and does not
support inclusionary zoning. He does
have plans for concrete green
initiatives; he will invest and allocate
resources to a bed bug eradication
plan, and will ensure implementation of
the Lesage Inquiry Recommendations
for Toronto Community Housing.

Candidate Grade Candidate Grade Candidate Grade

Rocco Achampong No response Diane Devenyi C+ Colin Magee No response
Michael Alexander No response James DiFiore No response Joseph Pampena No response
Don Andrews No response David Epstein No response Vijay Sarma No response
George Babula No response Selwyn Firth No response Mark State D
Christopher Ball No response Michael Flie D Tibor Steinberger No response
Michael Brausewetter No response Baqui-Abdullah Ghazi F Himy Syed No response
Douglas Campbell F Howard Gomberg No response Weizhen Tang No response
Jamie Castillo No response Barry Goodhead F Phil Taylor No response
Kevin Clarke No response Monowar Hossain No response David Vallance No response
Keith Cole No response Dewitt Lee C+ Ratan Wadhwa No response
Charlene Cottle No response John Letonja D Daniel Walker D
Gerald Derome F Carmen Macklin No response

Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations

27 Carlton Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1L2
phone (416) 646-1772 fax (416) 921-4177
fmta@torontotenants.org www.torontotenants.org
COUNCIL CANDIDATES
First Name Last Name Grade First Name Last Name Grade
Ward 1 Ted Berger C Ward 6 Wendell Bereton n/a
Vinvent Crisanti n/a Jem Cain n/a
Peter D'Gama B Mark Grimes n/a
Omar Farouk n/a Michael Laxer A+
Suzan Hall A+ Cecilia Luu n/a
Sharad Sharma B David Searle n/a
Ward 2 Cadigia Ali n/a Ward 7 Scott Aitchison C
No contact
Doug Ford Nick Di Nizio n/a
info
Rajinder Lall n/a Sergio Gizzo n/a
Jason Pedlar n/a Sharon Joseph n/a
Luciano Rizzuti B Victoria Lucero n/a
Andrew Saikaley n/a Chris MacDonald n/a
No contact
Ward 3 Roger Deschenes Giorgio Mammoliti n/a
info
Doug Holyday n/a Larry Perlman A
No contact No contact
Peter Kudryk Stefano Tesoro
info info
Ross Vaughan n/a Ward 8 Antonius Clarke n/a
Ward 4 Daniel Bertonlini n/a John Gallagher n/a
John Campbell n/a Naseeb Husain n/a
Gloria Lindsay Luby n/a Peter Li Preti n/a
No contact
Ward 5 John Chiappetta n/a Gerardo Miniguano
info
Justin Di Ciano n/a Anthony Perruzza n/a
No contact
Morley Kells Arthur Smitherman B
info
Peter Milczyn n/a Ramnarine Tiwari n/a
No contact
Rob Therrien
info

First Name Last Name Grade First Name Last Name Grade
Ward 9 Gianfranco Amendola n/a Ward 13 Sarah Doucette B
Maria Augimeri n/a Nick Pavlov n/a
No contact
Wilson Basantes Bill Saundercook n/a
info
No contact
Gus Cuismano n/a Jackelyn Van Altenberg
info
No contact
Stefano Picone Redmon Weissenberger n/a
info
No contact
Ward 10 Drago Banovic Ward 14 Michael Erickson n/a
info
Joseph Cohen n/a Ryan Hobson n/a
Robert Freedland n/a Barry Hubick n/a
Jarred Friedman n/a Jules-José Kerlinger n/a
Gondor
Magda n/a Gus Koutoumanos D
Berkovits
Nancy Oomen n/a Gord Perks n/a
James Pasternak n/a Cullen Simpson n/a
No contact
Eric Plant D Jimmy Talpa
info
Brian Shifman n/a Istvan Tar n/a
Konstantin Toubis n/a Bill Vrebosch n/a
Igor Toutchinski n/a Ward 15 Josh Colle n/a
Edward Zaretsky n/a Rob Davis n/a
Ward 11 Abdirazak Hashised n/a Tony Evangelista A
Leo Marshal n/a Giuseppe Pede n/a
Frances Nunziata A William Reitsma n/a
Fulvio Sansone n/a Ron Singer n/a
Ward 12 Angelo Bellavia n/a Eva Tavares A
Frank Di Girogio n/a Ward 16 Michael Coll n/a
Nick Dominelli n/a Roy Macdonald n/a
Vilma Filici n/a Terry Mills n/a
No contact
Richard Gosling Karen Stintz C
info
Joe Renda B
Steve Tasses n/a

Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations

27 Carlton Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1L2
phone (416) 646-1772 fax (416) 921-4177
fmta@torontotenants.org www.torontotenants.org
 First Name Last Name Grade First Name Last Name Grade
Ward 17 Brian Bragason n/a Ward 20 Dean Maher n/a
Tony Letra n/a Ken Osadchuk n/a
Maria Marques n/a Roman Polochansky n/a
Cesar Palacio n/a Adam Vaughan A
No contact
Karlene Rasaiah Mike Yen n/a
info
Jonah Schein n/a Ward 21 Marius Frederick n/a
Ben Stirpe n/a Alex Freedman n/a
No contact
Ward 18 Ana Bailao A Beth McLellan
info
Kevin Beaulieu A Joe Mihevc A+
Doug Carroll n/a Peter Nolan n/a
Frank de Jong B Shimmy Posen n/a
No contact No contact
Abdirazak Elmi Ward 22 Elizabeth Cook
info info
No contact
Nha Letcher Josh Matlow n/a
info
Jim Likourezos n/a William Molls n/a
Joe MacDonald C Chris Sellors A+
Mohammad Muhit n/a Ward 23 Peter Clarke C
Kirk Russell n/a John Filion n/a
No contact
Joanna Teliatnik Dusan Kralik n/a
info
Hema Vyas A+ Charles Sutherland n/a
No contact
Ken Wood A John Whyte
info
Ward 19 Rosario Bruto n/a Ward 24 Sunny Cho n/a
No contact
David Footman Eugene Loo n/a
info
Mike Layton A+ Bob Nahiddi C
Sean McCormick n/a David Shiner n/a
No contact
Karlene Nation Ward 25 Joanne Dickins A
info
George Sawision n/a Tanya Hostler D
Jason Stevens n/a Cliff Jenkins A+
Karen Sun A Jaye Robinson n/a

First Name Last Name Grade First Name Last Name Grade
Ward 26 Tanvir Ahmed n/a Ward 28 Howard Bortenstein n/a
n/a No contact
Jon Burnside Eric Brazau
info
n/a No contact
Mohamed Dhanani Dennis Hollingsworth
info
No contact
Nawab Salim Khan Pam McConnell A
info
No contact
Shaukat Malik Daniel Murton A
info
Yunus Pandor n/a Raj Rama n/a
Ward 27 John Parker n/a Ward 29 Chris Caldwell n/a
Enza Anderson B Mary Fragedakis A+
No contact
Ben Bergen Jane Pitfield n/a
info
Ken Chan A Mike Restivo C
Joel Dick A+ John Richardson n/a
Susan Gapka B Jennifer Wood n/a
No contact n/a
Jonas Jemstone Ward 30 Andreas Bogojevic
info
Gary Leroux C Mark Dewdney A+
Robert Meynell B Paula Fletcher n/a
Perry Missal n/a Andrew James n/a
n/a No contact
Ram Narula Angie Tingas
info
n/a No contact
Ella Rebanks Mihaly Varga
info
No contact n/a
Paul Spence Gary Walsh
info
Chris Tindal A Liz West n/a
Kristyn Wong-Tam n/a
Simon Wookey n/a

Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations

27 Carlton Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1L2
phone (416) 646-1772 fax (416) 921-4177
fmta@torontotenants.org www.torontotenants.org
 First Name Last Name Grade First Name Last Name Grade
No contact n/a
Ward 31 Peter Angaliotis Ward 35 Malik Ahmad
info
Donna Braniff C Michelle Berardinetti n/a
No contact
Janet Davis A+ Jay Burnett
info
No contact n/a
Brenda MacDonald Victoria Doyle
info
Rasal Rahman n/a Ed Green n/a
No contact
Leonard Subotich Adrian Heaps A
info
No contact
Robert Walker n/a John Lewis
info
n/a No contact
Ward 32 Bruce Baker John Morawietz
info
n/a No contact
Keith Begley Peter Tijiri
info
Sandra Bussin A+ Jason Woychesko n/a
Albert Castells n/a Ward 36 Tony Ashdown F
Brad Feraday n/a Vicki Breen A
Martin Gladstone n/a Gary Crawford n/a
Mary-
McMahom n/a Roman Danilov n/a
Margaret
No contact n/a
Kieron Pope Eddy Gasparotto
info
Neil Sinclair C Sean Gladnew n/a
Ward 33 Shelley Carroll n/a Hogan Diane n/a
No contact
Fil Giannakopoulos Marvin Macaraig B
info
Mike Ihnat C Robert McDermott n/a
David Raines n/a Robert Spencer B
Ward 34 Denzil Minnan-Wong n/a Ward 37 Fawzi Bidawi C
Stephan Stewart n/a Isabelle Champagne n/a
Peter Youngren n/a Sergio Otoya Salazar n/a
Michael Thompson n/a

First Name Last Name Grade First Name Last Name Grade
Ward 38 Glenn De Baeremaeker n/a Ward 42 Mohammed Ather n/a
Kirk Jensen n/a Raymond Cho n/a
Glenn Middleton n/a Namu Ponnambalam n/a
Tushar Shah n/a Shamoon Poonawala n/a
No contact No contact
Sandip Vora Venthan Ramanathavavuniyan
info info
Ward 39 Mike Del Grande n/a Leon Saul C
Caldwell Williams n/a Neethan Shan B
Kevin Xu n/a George Singh n/a
Ward 40 Diana Hall n/a Ruth Tecle n/a
Bryan Heal n/a Ward 43 Paul Ainslie B
Norm Kelly n/a Samuel Getachew n/a
Ken Sy n/a John Laforet n/a
No contact
Cheng-Chih Tsai Benjamin Mbaegbu n/a
info
No contact
Ward 41 Danny Chien n/a Bhaskar Sharma
info
No contact
Chin Lee n/a Ward 44 Mohammed Mirza
info
No contact
Patricia Sinclair Ron Moeser n/a
info
Heath Thomas n/a

*Candidates with contact information were contacted via email and phone on at least five different occasions.
Candidates received an automatic F for not responding.

Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations

27 Carlton Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1L2
phone (416) 646-1772 fax (416) 921-4177
fmta@torontotenants.org www.torontotenants.org