MPP: Hon. Shafiq Qaadri - Etobicoke North

Heavenly Father we thank you for the plans and purposes that you have for Shafiq Qaadri MPP for Etobicoke North. Bless him as he pursues the many responsibilities of his office both in the riding and at Queens Park. Your joy Father is our strength; may Mr Quaadri experience Your joy in his life and may it give him strength to make wise decisions that are for the good of the people of this province. May he especially be a champion for the less fortunate and those in need of assistance. Amen.

Dr. Qaadri is a strong advocate of quality Public Healthcare, Education, Diversity and a Just Society. He was first elected to the Ontario Legislature in 2003. He has served as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Children's Services. In 2006 he was appointed Parliamentary Assistant to Ontario's first Minister of Health Promotion.

On October 10, 2007, Dr. Qaadri was re-elected to his second term in the Ontario Provincial Parliament, and re-elected again to his third term in October 2011.  He currently serves as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Government Services.

Dr. Qaadri graduated from Upper Canada College in 1982, and from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1988. During his academic career, he won several scholarships and awards, including an English-Speaking Union Essay Prize to Oxford University, a Canadian National Debating Championship, a Medical Research Council Scholarship in Clinical Neurosurgery, and a Senator Thompson Fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania.

As a physician, the multilingual Dr. Qaadri has published and presented more than 700 articles on a variety of medical topics. He has appeared on more than 1000 radio and television shows. A novelist, he is the author of BIO-JIHAD & the PLEASURE-5 SURGERY, a medical thriller. His non-fiction includes a health manual for men, “THE TESTOSTERONE FACTOR: A Practical Guide to Improving Vitality and Virility, Naturally,” was released in 2006 and is now published in 5 countries and 4 languages. 

Dr. Qaadri and his wife have two children.

He is honoured to be the Member of Provincial Parliament serving the people of Etobicoke North, for whom he is an eloquent and fierce advocate.

http://shafiqqaadri.onmpp.ca/Biography