MPP Shafiq Qaadri, Etobicoke North

As Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Member, Standing Committee on Government Agencies and Chair, Standing Committee on Justice Policy, MPP Qaadri  has a very heavy responsibility. We ask You, Lord, for great insight and wisdom as he endeavours to make decisions that have a huge impact on many lives in Ontario.  May he always have influence from others that will help to equip him in this major role. We pray that he would have physical strength and health to carry out his assignment. May his family know Your grace to share him in this public office.  We ask these things in the Name of Jesus 

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.