Anthony Housefather
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Anthony Housefather, was born in Montreal in 1970 and is the Mayor of Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, a city on the Island of Montreal. He has two law degrees from McGill University and an MBA from Concordia University and is Vice President Legal and Contracts at a multinational technology company. He was a nationally ranked athlete as a student and then channeled his competitive energy towards politics.
He was a City Councillor in Hampstead from 1994 to 2001. He served as president of Alliance Quebec between June of 2000 to 2001. When the mega-city of Montreal was created in 2001 he was elected as a Councillor for the Borough of Cote Saint Luc/Hampstead/Montreal West and served as President of the demerger committee of Cote Saint Luc and co-chair of the Hampstead Demerger Committee in the successful 2004 demerger referendums when all three sectors of Housefather's borough voted to demerge.
On November 7, 2005, he was elected mayor of Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec with 75% of the vote. He sits on the Montreal agglomeration council and the agglomeration's Public Security Commission. He has written many political opinion pieces for Canadian newspapers and sometimes appears as a "talking head" on local radio and tv broadcasts.
