Dave Fluri

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Dave Fluri is a union and community activist from West Nipissing, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Brantford, Ontario in 1956 and was raised in the Niagara Peninsula.

After a brief stint as an employee of the Ontario Jockey Club, Fluri became a member of the Canadian Paperworkers Union (now the Communication, Energy and Paperworkers) Local 101. In 1975, Fluri attended Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, where he studied French, German, English and Mathematics.

In 1982, Fluri began work as a professional photographer, joining the Professional Photographers of Ontario in 1983.

In 1984, Fluri returned to post-secondary studies, entering the Honours Fisheries Biology program at the University of Guelph. He was graduated, cum laude, in 1987. That same year, he undertook graduate studies. He was graduated from the University of Guelph with a Master's degree in Aquatic Sciences, in 1992.

In 1990, Fluri began work with the Government of Ontario as a biologist. As a member of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Local 635, Fluri served as vice president and, later, as president of his local.

After working on various campaigns, Fluri became a candidate in the 2004 federal election for the New Democratic Party in the Nipissing—Timiskaming riding.

In the 2004 election, Fluri nearly tripled the vote for the New Democrats from the previous election, garnering the largest total vote for a social democrat since the election of 1945, when J. Bénonie Levert of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation came second in the election.

Fluri is married with two children. He continues his work as an activist, most recently having been involved in the anti-privatization campaign for the North Bay Regional Hospital. Fluri was recently acclaimed as the New Democratic candidate for Nipissing—Timiskaming in the 2006 election.