A South Asian Canadian business owner running for a council seat in Mississauga is vowing to donate 10 meals to a local food bank for every one of his campaign signs that are damaged or stolen in an attempt to turn a negative incident into a positive one.
made the comment to CP24.com as he discussed a recent rash of vandalism involving his campaign signs.
The 52-year-old father is running for a third time in Ward 11, which includes the Meadowvale and Streetsville neighbourhoods, but says he has never faced this sort of issue on the campaign trail before. He says people might be targeting his signs out of fear because he does not “look like the average Canadian” running in the election.
Hasan’s father was born in India and his mother in Pakistan, and the couple immigrated to Canada in the 1970s. Hasan eventually moved to Mississauga in 1991 where he is raising his two children and has a tech business. The City of Mississauga says the only other person of colour besides Damerla to sit on council was Cliff Gyles, who served as Ward 5 councillor during the 1997-2000 term and for part of the 2000-2003 term.“It's hard to believe that with a city as diverse as Mississauga and a community as vibrant as Ward 11 in Streetsville that we only have one individual from an ethnic visible minority on council. It's clearly not a representation of the demographics that the council serves.
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