Liberal Arif Virani wins Parkdale—High Park

By: Victoria Gibson - Affordable Housing Reporter, Toronto Star Posted: 11:41 PM CDT Monday, Sep. 20, 2021 Last Modified: 11:45 PM CDT Monday, Sep. 20, 2021

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Arif Virani has won the riding of Parkdale—High Park for the Liberals.

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Arif Virani has won the riding of Parkdale—High Park for the Liberals.

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Arif Virani has won the riding of Parkdale—High Park for the Liberals.

Virani has held the riding since 2015, when he won the seat from the NDP in a close vote. The riding has swung back and forth between the Liberals and New Democrats since the late 1980s.

Virani came to Canada as a refugee from Uganda, and practised as a human rights and constitutional lawyer for 15 years before entering politics and serving the last two terms.

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Arif Virani has held the Parkdale—High Park riding since 2015, when he won the seat from the NDP in a close vote. The riding has swung back and forth between the Liberals and New Democrats since the late 1980s. — Angelyn Francis - Toronto Star Arif Virani has held the Parkdale—High Park riding since 2015, when he won the seat from the NDP in a close vote. The riding has swung back and forth between the Liberals and New Democrats since the late 1980s.

His campaign this federal election thwarted challenges from the NDP’s Paul Taylor, a teacher and anti-poverty advocate who also lost to Virani in 2019, the Conservatives’ Nestor Sanajko, who works in urban mining, the Greens’ Diem Marchand-Lafortune, an artist and advocate, and the People’s Party’s Wilfried Danzinger, a computer engineer.

Virani speaks English, French and “some” Hindi, is the father of two boys, and prior to politics, served as an assistant trial attorney prosecuting genocide at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

He has served as chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, and since 2018, held the position of parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice.

Victoria Gibson is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star covering affordable housing. Reach her via email: victoriagibson@thestar.ca