Mario Silva (politician)

rdf:langString Mario Silva (politician)

rdf:langString Mario Silva

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rdf:langString Toronto City Councillor

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rdf:langString first councillor

rdf:langString Legal Scholar

rdf:langString Wards reorganized due to Municipal amalgamation of Toronto

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rdf:langString Mário Silva (born June 11, 1966) is a Canadian legal scholar and former politician. Silva served as a Canadian Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. He began his political career as a Toronto City Councillor from 1994 to 2003. He then moved to federal politics, being elected for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2004 election in the Toronto riding of Davenport. He served as the Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs (Americas) after having served as Critic for the Treasury Board and Labour. In 2007, the President of the French Republic bestowed him the title of Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur). He has also been awarded the Order of Merit of Portugal. and the Order of Rio Branco from Brazil. Silva holds a BA in political science from the University of Toronto, a "Certificat de Langue Francaise" from Paris-Sorbonne University, and a master's degree in International Human Rights Law from University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Silva holds a PhD in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Silva's PhD thesis is titled "Failed and Failing States: Causes and Conditions." On December 15, 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed him to chair the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (formally the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF)) in 2013. He is currently a distinguished fellow, law and business at Ryerson University in Toronto.On July 30, 2020 he was appointed vice chair of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

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