Glenn De Baeremaeker

Glenn De Baeremaeker

Glenn De Baeremaeker is a Toronto city councillor representing Ward 38, one of the two Scarborough Centre wards. The son of a working class family he has a Masters in international development and spent six months in Ethiopia at the height of the 1980s famine.

He originally rose to prominence for his work with the Save the Rouge group fighting to keep the Rouge Valley area of Scarborough free from development. A strong environmentalist De Baeremaeker is a vegan. Working as an assistant to city councillor Doug Mahood, De Baeremaeker ran for a seat on Scarborough city council in 1994 but lost to David Soknacki.

Continuing his environmental work De Baeremaeker became one of the leaders in the effort to save the Oak Ridges Moraine from development. When Brad Duguid left city council in 2003 to run for the provincial Liberals De Baeremaeker decided to run for the empty seat and triumphed by a wide margin.

External links

* [http://www.voteglenn.ca Glenn De Baeremaeker official website]
* [http://www.toronto.ca/councillors/debaeremaeker1.htm Glenn De Baeremaeker profile on City of Toronto website]


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