Chin Lee

Chin Lee
Toronto City Councillor for (Ward 41) Scarborough-Rouge River
Incumbent
Assumed office December 1, 2006
Preceded by	Paul Ainslie
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Nationality	Chinese-Canadian
Occupation	Consultant

Chin Lee is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada from Scarborough for Ward 41 Scarborough-Rouge River.

Lee is a Malaysian-Chinese Canadian who was elected to Toronto City Council in the November 2006 civic elections to Ward 41 - Scarborough-Rouge River. He replaces former councillor and current MPP Bas Balkissoon. Lee is also a member of the Scarborough Community Council.

He is one of four councillors of Asian heritage elected to city council in Toronto, the other three being Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and Korean born, Councillor Raymond Cho.

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 and Mike Del Grande 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.

Election results

2010 Toronto election, Ward 41
Candidate	Votes	%
Chin Lee	12,557	70.616%
Patricia Sinclair	2,718	15.285%
Danny Chien	2,507	14.099%
Total	17,782	100%

Unofficial results as of October 26, 2010 03:55 AM^[1]

References

1. ^ City of Toronto elections page

External links

• City of Toronto Councillor Profile

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