Mike Feldman
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Michael "Mike" Feldman (born ca. 1928) is a councillor for Ward 10 York Centre and former Deputy Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Feldman was first elected in 1992 to the City Council of the former City of North York. Feldman was a chair of the Metro Housing Development Corporation, a public housing agency serving the second-tier municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, whose constituent municipalities would form the merged city of Toronto after 1997. After this amalgamation, he ran and was elected to the Toronto City Council.
Feldman was a longtime supporter of Mel Lastman, the generally conservative mayor first of North York, then of the merged Toronto until 2003. In that year's municipal election, Feldman supported John Tory, a moderate conservative, for mayor. When David Miller, a social democrat, was elected, one of his first appointments was to name Feldman one of his three Deputy Mayors.
Along with the appointment of fellow councillor David Soknacki as budget chief, Feldman's appointment was seen as a key outreach to conservatives on the new mayor's part. The left-wing alternative weekly newspaper NOW wrote that "Miller has long respected Feldman's financial acumen and his commitment to neighbourhood issues. The retired business executive is a straight-shooting conservative who can get along with both sides at council and give North York a high-profile voice at City Hall." [1]
Before entering municipal politics, Feldman was a businessman who founded Teela Data Management, a company specializing in real estate information, which was sold to Moore Corp. in 1982. He retired from business in 1988.
Feldman has served as president of the Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue and of the Ontario Region of the United Synagogue of America, the central organization of synagogues in Conservative Judaism. He has been active with the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.
He and his wife, Sue, have three children and four grandchildren.
