Mike Feldman

Michael "Mike" Feldman (born ca. 1928) was city councillor for Ward 10 (York Centre) from 1992 to 2010, and former Deputy Mayor, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Feldman was first elected in 1992 to the City Council of what was then the 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 amalgamated city of Toronto in 1998. 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, jointly with Joe Pantalone and Sandra Bussin.

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 magazine 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]

After the 2006 election, Miller appointed a single deputy mayor, Pantalone. In 2009, Feldman joined the Responsible Government Group, a conservative caucus seen as an unofficial opposition to Miller and the centre-left majority of council.

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.

Election results

References

External links

• Mike Feldman profile on City of Toronto website