Gloria Lindsay Luby is a Canadian former politician. Luby was a

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and former Deputy Speaker of

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, Canada for Ward 4 Etobicoke Centre. She represented one of the two Etobicoke Centre wards. Lindsay Luby is also a former chair of the Government Management Committee.

Career

She was a successful businesswoman and consultant before entering politics. She first served as a trustee on the

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school board, and then became an Etobicoke city councillor. When Etobicoke was merged with the City of Toronto and four other municipalities in 1997, she was elected to the Toronto City Council. She was a member of the Toronto Police Services Board for the period December 2000-December 4, 2003. She served as acting chair of the Toronto Police Services Board during the period June–November 2013 after Norm Gardner stepped aside as board chair. Luby also served as chair of the Economic Development and Parks Committee. A member of the

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, she publicly mused about running in the 2003 provincial election to replace

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as the local

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, and was courted by PC leader

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Family

Lindsay Luby's education includes an honours degree from the

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and a Master of Education degree from the

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. She and her husband have three children. She is of Ukrainian heritage.

Resignation

On September 28, 2009, Lindsay Luby resigned from the executive committee claiming that she felt marginalized and didn't agree with Toronto Mayor Miller's agenda. She said, "I never felt part of that small inner circle" referring to other members of the executive committee who had closer ties to the mayor. She denied that her resignation had anything to do with Miller's recent announcement to not seek a third term as mayor. "I was reluctant to take this step while all the attention was focused on the mayor's re-election prospects," she said.Donovan Vincent
Lindsay Luby quits Miller's executive committee
''Toronto Star'', September 28, 2009. On August 28, 2014, Lindsay Luby announced that she would not seek re-election for her ward.

Election results

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsay Luby, Gloria Businesspeople from Toronto Toronto city councillors People from Etobicoke University of Western Ontario alumni University of Toronto alumni Canadian people of Ukrainian descent Women municipal councillors in Canada Living people Women in Ontario politics Year of birth missing (living people)