Anthony Housefather, was born in Montreal in 1970 and is the Mayor of Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, a city on the Island of Montreal.[1] He holds a law degree from McGill University, an MBA from Concordia University (Montreal), and is Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs and General Counsel 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 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. He served as co-chair of the demerger committee of Côte Saint-Luc along with former City Councillors Mitchell Brownstein, Ruth Kovac and Glenn J. Nashen, and was a member of the Hampstead Demerger Committee in the successful 2004 demerger referendums, when all three sectors of the borough voted to separate from Montreal.
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 on local radio and television broadcasts.
Housefather was re-elected by acclamation to a second term as Mayor of Côte Saint-Luc on October 2, 2009 (in advance of the November 1, 2009 vote).