Chin Lee (Chinese: 李振光; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngguāng) is a former Canadian city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from Scarborough for Ward 41 Scarborough-Rouge River until his resignation in May 2018.
Lee was elected to Toronto City Council in the November 2006 civic elections for Ward 41 - Scarborough—Rouge River. He replaced former councillor and MPP Bas Balkissoon. Lee is also a member of the Scarborough Community Council.
Lee is one of Toronto City Council's three appointees to the seven-member Toronto Police Services Board where he presently serves as vice-chair.[1]
He is one of four councillors of Asian heritage elected to city council in Toronto in 2014, the other three being Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and Korean born, Councillor Raymond Cho.
Born to Chinese-Malaysian parents, his grandparents came from the Kaiping/Taishan region of the Guangdong province in China.
Prior to entering politics Chin Lee served as President of the Goldhawk Community Association, serving the northeast Scarborough Community. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Chin Lee, along with other community leaders such as Bas Balkissoon 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. [citation needed]
On October 27, 2017, Lee announced that he would be seeking the Liberal nomination for the 2018 provincial election in Scarborough North. On November 6, 2017, he was acclaimed as the candidate.[2] In the general election, he placed third, losing to incumbent Progressive Conservative MPP Raymond Cho by more than a two-to-one margin and placing behind the New Democratic candidate.
Election results
| 2010 Toronto election, Ward 41
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Chin Lee |
12,557 |
70.6
|
| Patricia Sinclair |
2,718 |
15.3
|
| Danny Chien |
2,507 |
14.1
|
| Total |
17,782 |
100%
|
| 2006 Toronto election, Ward 41
|
| Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
| Chin Lee |
5,501 |
37.8
|
| David Robertson |
3,324 |
22.9
|
| Thadsha Navamanikkam |
1,727 |
11.9
|
| Hratch Aynedjian |
1,376 |
9.5
|
| Scott Shi |
926 |
6.4
|
| John Ching |
690 |
4.7
|
| Sonny Yeung |
365 |
2.5
|
| Malcolm Mansfield |
338 |
2.3
|
| Jose Baking |
158 |
1.1
|
| Min Lee |
139 |
1.0
|
Lee also ran in the 1994 municipal elections in then Scarborough Ward 11:
- Shaw, Sherene 3,197
- Lombardi, Don 2,272
- Lee, Chin 1,944
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