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| Affiliation | Liberal |
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| Name | Joe Volpe |
| Address |
Toronto, Ontario , Canada |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://www.joevolpe.com/ |
| Born |
September 21, 1947
(77 years)
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Modifed | Monsieur
Apr 20, 2006 08:40am |
| Tags |
Italian - Catholic -
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| Info | Giuseppe "Joe" Volpe
The Honourable Joe Volpe is a Canadian politician and the former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
Born in Monteleone, Puglia, Italy, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. (1970), a B.Ed. (1971) and a M.Ed. (1980). From 1971 to 1974, he was a teacher in Stoney Creek. From 1974 to 1979, he was head of the history department at a secondary school in Etobicoke. From 1979 to 1982, he was head of multicultural studies in a college in Weston, Ontario. He then became a mortgage development officer from 1982 until 1983, until and then became vice-principal and co-founder of the J.M. McGuigan Secondary School. He held this position until 1988.
In the 1981 Ontario provincial election, he ran for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the provincial riding of Downsview, but was defeated. He also ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Ontario Liberal Party in 1985.
He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election in the Toronto riding of Eglinton--Lawrence. He was re-elected in the 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2004 elections.
Recently, Volpe came under criticism for remarks he made comparing the Conservative Party to the Ku Klux Klan. He made the remarks after seeing two Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs) posing with a poster from the Western Standard magazine comparing Liberals to the family from the mafia TV show The Sopranos, with the title "The Liberano$". Volpe considered this a slur against Italian-Canadians such as himself, despite the fact that the two key figures in the poster, Prime Minister Paul Martin and former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien are not Italian. He subsequently apologized.
He is married to Mirella and they have four children: Luciano, Flavio, Letizia and Massimo.
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