Adrian Heaps
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Adrian A. Heaps is a politician in Toronto
, Canada
. He was the member of Toronto City Council
for Scarborough Southwest
Ward 35 from 2006 to 2010.
, a leader of the Winnipeg General Strike, left-wing Member of Parliament
in the 1920s and 1930s, and founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
. Heaps' father, Leo, received a military cross for service in World War II and was a New Democratic Party
candidate in the 1979 federal election
, while his son Toby was a senior staffer in Ralph Nader
's 2004 US presidential campaign.
Heaps is a former vice-president of an independent music label. In the mid-1990s he worked on a First Nation reserve near Penetanguishene, Ontario
. In 2004 he worked in Colombia
as a volunteer for the Canadian International Development Agency
helping several municipalities with development projects.
in the riding of Scarborough Southwest]. He finished second behind Progressive Conservative
Dan Newman
with 33.66% of the vote. He attempted to run again but failed to win the Liberal nomination for the 2003 provincial election. The same year
he ran for Toronto City Council but came in second behind incumbent Gerry Altobello
.
In 2006
, he ran again for City Councillor after Altobello was appointed a justice of the peace
. Heaps ran his campaign based on delivering better services by the city. He said, "The quality of services you receive is related to the quality of the representative you have." He defeated Michelle Berardinetti
by 89 votes.
In early 2007, Berardinetti sued him for defamation due to an incident during the campaign. Berardinetti claimed that Heaps defamed her by distributing copies of a Globe and Mail article that endorsed him two days before the election. The article by columnist John Barber who described himself as a classmate of Heaps endorsed him while belittling Berardinetti as little more than a nepotistic "pillow talker" of her MPP husband. Heaps and Berardinetti eventually settled out of court. In December, 2009, City Council voted to reimburse Heaps for the both the settlement and legal expenses which amounted to $65,680. In January, 2010 Heaps elected to refuse the reimbursement.
In a related matter, City Council also decided to reimburse legal fees incurred by Heaps when a group called the Toronto Party for a Better City (TPBC) requested a compliance audit on Heaps' campaign expenses. The audit committee reviewed the expenses and found no evidence of improper financing but the group appealed the decision to a higher court. The legal fees for this process amounted to $45,330. City Council also authorized an additional payment since the reimbursement was deemed a taxable benefit. TPBC and fellow councillor Doug Holyday
launched a second legal action to force Heaps to repay the money. Heaps had refused the reimbursement for the defamation lawsuit but still accepted the reimbursement for the compliance audit action. In July 2010, the Divisional Court ruled that City Council had no authority to reimburse Heaps since he was a candidate at the time and not yet a councillor. In August 2010, City Council appealed that decision and went further by declaring the money to be a 'grant' rather than a 'reimbursement'. Mayor David Miller argued that anyone running for office should not be forced into paying large legal fees. He said, "Nobody in this city, unless you're really rich, can afford to run for public office and be subjected to $70,000 in legal fees." In December 2010, the court refused the city's request for an appeal. However, the court did not force Heaps to return the money.
During his time in office, he served as chair of the city's Cycling Advisory Committee. He also served as chair of Disabilities Issues for Toronto and headed up committees involved in sports related activities such as the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay and the 2015 Pan American Games
. Citing workload issues Heaps declined an offer by Mayor David Miller
to sit as a councillor-at-large on the city's powerful executive committee.
In the 2010 election
, Heaps and Berardinetti again competed for the ward. One of the major issues was bike lanes in the ward. Berardinetti claimed that unconnected bike lanes on Pharmacy Avenue and Birchmount Road were leading some residents who lived on those streets to move out of the ward. Berardinetti, who described them as "bike lanes to nowhere", said that she would replace them with sharrows. Heaps said that the bike lanes were put in place by the previous councillor. He said that the best alternative was to link up the existing network rather than approve any more stand alone bike lanes. Heaps lost the election to Berardinetti by 2,203 votes.
Results as of October 26, 2010 03:55 AM. 42 out of 42 polls.
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. He was the member of Toronto City Council
Toronto City Council
The Toronto City Council is the governing body of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors....
for Scarborough Southwest
Scarborough Southwest
Scarborough Southwest is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons.On Toronto City Council, the southeast portion is represented by Gary Crawford. The northwest section is represented by Michelle Berardinetti.-Geography:It covers the...
Ward 35 from 2006 to 2010.
Background
Heaps is the grandson of Abraham Albert HeapsAbraham Albert Heaps
Abraham Albert Heaps was a Canadian politician and labour leader.Born in Leeds, England, Heaps immigrated to Canada in 1911 and worked in Winnipeg as an upholsterer. He was one of the leaders of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 and was a Labor alderman on the Winnipeg City Council from 1917...
, a leader of the Winnipeg General Strike, left-wing Member of Parliament
Canadian House of Commons
The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
in the 1920s and 1930s, and founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...
. Heaps' father, Leo, received a military cross for service in World War II and was a New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
candidate in the 1979 federal election
Canadian federal election, 1979
The Canadian federal election of 1979 was held on May 22, 1979 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 31st Parliament of Canada. It resulted in the defeat of Liberal Party of Canada after 11 years in power under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Joe Clark led the Progressive...
, while his son Toby was a senior staffer in Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
's 2004 US presidential campaign.
Heaps is a former vice-president of an independent music label. In the mid-1990s he worked on a First Nation reserve near Penetanguishene, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
. In 2004 he worked in Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
as a volunteer for the Canadian International Development Agency
Canadian International Development Agency
The Canadian International Development Agency was formed in 1968 by the Canadian government. CIDA administers foreign aid programs in developing countries, and operates in partnership with other Canadian organizations in the public and private sectors as well as other international organizations...
helping several municipalities with development projects.
Politics
In 1999, Heaps ran as the Liberal candidate in the 1999 provincial electionOntario general election, 1999
An Ontario general election was held on June 3, 1999, to elect members of the 37th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
in the riding of Scarborough Southwest]. He finished second behind Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...
Dan Newman
Dan Newman
Dan Newman is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....
with 33.66% of the vote. He attempted to run again but failed to win the Liberal nomination for the 2003 provincial election. The same year
Toronto municipal election, 2003
The Toronto municipal election of 2003 was held on November 10, 2003, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to elect the Mayor of Toronto, 44 city councillors, and school board trustees.David Miller was elected mayor ....
he ran for Toronto City Council but came in second behind incumbent Gerry Altobello
Gerry Altobello
Gerry Altobello is a former city councillor in Toronto, Canada. He represented Scarborough Southwest.Altobello first entered politics in 1985 when he was elected to the council of Scarborough to represent Ward 2, defeating more left-leaning candidate Barry Boyle. At 27, he was the youngest member...
.
In 2006
Toronto municipal election, 2006
The 2006 Toronto municipal election took place on 13 November 2006 to elect a mayor and 44 city councillors in Toronto, Ontario. In addition, school trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest...
, he ran again for City Councillor after Altobello was appointed a justice of the peace
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...
. Heaps ran his campaign based on delivering better services by the city. He said, "The quality of services you receive is related to the quality of the representative you have." He defeated Michelle Berardinetti
Michelle Berardinetti
Michelle Berardinetti, is a Canadian politician, who was elected to Toronto City Council in the 2010 city council election, defeating Adrian Heaps in Ward 35.-Background:...
by 89 votes.
In early 2007, Berardinetti sued him for defamation due to an incident during the campaign. Berardinetti claimed that Heaps defamed her by distributing copies of a Globe and Mail article that endorsed him two days before the election. The article by columnist John Barber who described himself as a classmate of Heaps endorsed him while belittling Berardinetti as little more than a nepotistic "pillow talker" of her MPP husband. Heaps and Berardinetti eventually settled out of court. In December, 2009, City Council voted to reimburse Heaps for the both the settlement and legal expenses which amounted to $65,680. In January, 2010 Heaps elected to refuse the reimbursement.
In a related matter, City Council also decided to reimburse legal fees incurred by Heaps when a group called the Toronto Party for a Better City (TPBC) requested a compliance audit on Heaps' campaign expenses. The audit committee reviewed the expenses and found no evidence of improper financing but the group appealed the decision to a higher court. The legal fees for this process amounted to $45,330. City Council also authorized an additional payment since the reimbursement was deemed a taxable benefit. TPBC and fellow councillor Doug Holyday
Doug Holyday
Doug Holyday is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada, who represents Ward 3 which is part of Etobicoke Centre, He is also Deputy Mayor of Toronto.Holyday has lived his entire life in Etobicoke, and was a successful businessman before entering political life....
launched a second legal action to force Heaps to repay the money. Heaps had refused the reimbursement for the defamation lawsuit but still accepted the reimbursement for the compliance audit action. In July 2010, the Divisional Court ruled that City Council had no authority to reimburse Heaps since he was a candidate at the time and not yet a councillor. In August 2010, City Council appealed that decision and went further by declaring the money to be a 'grant' rather than a 'reimbursement'. Mayor David Miller argued that anyone running for office should not be forced into paying large legal fees. He said, "Nobody in this city, unless you're really rich, can afford to run for public office and be subjected to $70,000 in legal fees." In December 2010, the court refused the city's request for an appeal. However, the court did not force Heaps to return the money.
During his time in office, he served as chair of the city's Cycling Advisory Committee. He also served as chair of Disabilities Issues for Toronto and headed up committees involved in sports related activities such as the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay and the 2015 Pan American Games
2015 Pan American Games
The 2015 Pan American Games, officially the XVII Pan American Games or the 17th Pan American Games, will be a major international multi-sport event that will be held from July 10–26, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Ajax, Barrie, Brampton, Caledon, Hamilton,...
. Citing workload issues Heaps declined an offer by Mayor David Miller
David Miller (Canadian politician)
David Raymond Miller is a Canadian politician. He was the 63rd Mayor of Toronto and the second since the 1998 amalgamation. He was elected to the position in 2003 for a three-year term and re-elected in 2006 for a four-year term...
to sit as a councillor-at-large on the city's powerful executive committee.
In the 2010 election
Toronto municipal election, 2010
The 2010 Toronto municipal election was held on October 25, 2010 to elect a mayor and 44 city councillors in Toronto, Canada. In addition, school trustees were elected to the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest and...
, Heaps and Berardinetti again competed for the ward. One of the major issues was bike lanes in the ward. Berardinetti claimed that unconnected bike lanes on Pharmacy Avenue and Birchmount Road were leading some residents who lived on those streets to move out of the ward. Berardinetti, who described them as "bike lanes to nowhere", said that she would replace them with sharrows. Heaps said that the bike lanes were put in place by the previous councillor. He said that the best alternative was to link up the existing network rather than approve any more stand alone bike lanes. Heaps lost the election to Berardinetti by 2,203 votes.
Election results
| 2010 Toronto election Toronto city council election, 2010 For information on the campaign for mayor see Toronto mayoral election, 2010The 2010 Toronto council election was held on October 25, 2010 to elect councillors to represent Toronto's 44 wards at Toronto City Council... , Ward 35 |
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| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Michelle Berardinetti Michelle Berardinetti Michelle Berardinetti, is a Canadian politician, who was elected to Toronto City Council in the 2010 city council election, defeating Adrian Heaps in Ward 35.-Background:... |
8,293 | 50.46% |
| Adrian Heaps | 6,020 | 36.62% |
| Malik Ahmad | 850 | 5.17% |
| Victoria Doyle | 429 | 2.61% |
| Ed Green | 253 | 1.54% |
| John Lewis | 183 | 1.11% |
| Jay Burnett | 173 | 1.06% |
| Peter Tijiri | 90 | 0.55% |
| John Morawietz | 76 | 0.46% |
| Jason Woychesko | 70 | 0.43% |
| Total | 16,437 | 100% |
Results as of October 26, 2010 03:55 AM. 42 out of 42 polls.