Tom Freda

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name = Tom Freda

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birth_date = 1956
birth_place = Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada
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residence = Canada
nationality = Canadian
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known_for = co-founder of Citizens for a Canadian Republic
education = Sheridan College Institute and Ryerson University
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title = National Director of Citizens for a Canadian Republic
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Thomas Freda (Born 1956) is a co-founder and current national director of Toronto, Ontario-based Citizens for a Canadian Republic (CCR). [http://www.canadian-republic.ca/media_release_4_10_02.html Citizens for a Canadian Republic: Press Release; October 10, 2002] ] CCR is a non-profit, non-partisan organization representing the Republicanism in Canada movement. He is the main Anglophone media spokesperson for the group. [ [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2007/10/01/majority-of-canadians-want-to-ditch-monarchy-poll.aspx Boutet, Chris; "National Post": Majority of Canadians want to ditch monarchy: poll; October 1, 2007] ]

Personal life

Freda, who is married with a school-age son, is a grand-nephew of Robert Winters, who served as a Cabinet Minister under Prime Ministers Louis St. Laurent and Lester Pearson.

A native of Nova Scotia, he was born in Halifax and relocated with his family to Bridgewater in 1961. In 1977, he moved to Toronto to study at Sheridan College and Ryerson University. He remained in the city and now works in the fields of advertising, marketing, design and photography. [http://www.canadian-republic.ca/bio_tomfreda.html Citizens for a Canadian Republic: National Director] ]

Canadian republicanism

Freda's involvement with Canadian republicanism began in 1997 when, as an Internet activist he established the websites, "Republic of Canada Online" and "Monarchy-FreeCanada.org", which were instrumental in uniting republicans to form Citizens for a Canadian Republic in 2002.

According to political science author Randall White in his 2001 book "Is Canada Trapped in a Time Warp? Political Symbols in the Age of the Internet", these sites indicated "the earliest beginnings of a popular Canadian republican movement are blowing gently in the wind." [White, Randall (PhD); "Is Canada Trapped in a Time Warp? Political Symbols in the Age of the Internet"; Toronto: Eastend Books, 2001; p. 112; ISBN 1896973248]

ee also

* Government of Canada
* Citizens for a Canadian Republic

References

External links

* [http://www.canadian-republic.ca/ Citizens for a Canadian Republic website]
* [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050410/cda_monarchy_poll_050409/20050410/ Canadians support breaking with monarchy:poll] CTV News
* [http://www.canada.com/national/features/democracy/story.html?id={1F3EF50E-2A74-401B-883E-AD27A04B271A} The fight for the Republic of Canada]
* [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1034517085381_133//# CTV Question Period: Constitutional debate about the Monarchy 9:27] Tom Freda and University of Saskatchewan Professor David E. Smith (click on right side link)