Ontario’s Minister for Seniors and Accessibility has been involved in politics in Toronto, and at the provincial levels for more than three decades
Raymond Cho, who despite his 86 years still has mostly jet-black hair, first ran for political office in his adopted country of Canada in November of 1988 – a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Rick Astley dominated the pop charts. Justin Trudeau was 17. Mr. Cho was already middle-aged.
“The more people I meet, I become more energized,” Mr. Cho tells The Globe and Mail, amid the clutter of his small constituency office in a strip mall in his riding on Toronto’s east side. “And when I see the response, I have to keep going.” His father left when Raymond was young, and his single mother raised eight children, of which he was the sixth.
In 1991, he won a seat on Metro Toronto council, the umbrella regional government for the now-amalgamated city, while drifting away from the NDP. He would be re-elected locally seven more times. As chairman of the Toronto Zoo board, he was credited with helping to secure the blockbuster visit of two giant pandas from China.
Mr. Cho would end up as one of just two MPPs to later endorse Mr. Ford’s bid for leader after the downfall of Mr. Brown, who is now the mayor of Brampton, Ont. And since the government’s first election in 2018, Mr. Cho is one of just two cabinet ministers that the Premier has kept in the same post though four major cabinet shuffles.
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