Gordon Chong
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Gordon Joseph Chong has served as a city of Toronto councillor and was vice-chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission. He is currently vice-chairman of GO Transit and was previously its chairman. He has also served as chairman of the Greater Toronto Services Board. A dentist, Chong represented a downtown Toronto ward on city council from 1980 until he was defeated by newcomer Jack Layton in 1982. He returned to Metro Council in the 1990s representing a suburban North York ward of Don Parkway Ward 11 from 1994 until 2000 when he retired from electoral politics.
In the 1987 provincial election, Chong was a Progressive Conservative candidate in York Mills, losing by 3000 votes to Liberal Brad Nixon.
[edit] External links
- GO Transit - Board of Directors
- Gordon Chong biography
- Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing - "Who Does What" Panel Biographies, May 30, 1996
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