Knowing more about... Bill Blair!

After some talks with some of my neighbours, I listened the same name again and again: Bill Blair. At the beginning I thought in writing about one of the normal residents of my community, but after that experience, I changed my mind. All the neighbours said to me that Bill is a man who really has done big things for this community. It sounded very interesting, so I started to investigate a little bit more by my own. Below I add a profile about who is Bill Blair, with some of the most interesting information about his whole career as politician and as police man.

This is Bill,  a heavy-set man with short and grey hair with the face of a disciplined man. Blair was born in the area of Scarborough in 1954, and he studied economics at the University of Toronto. Today, Blairs represents the district of Scarborough Southwest as a Member of Parliament. The past April 25, he retired as a police man after 10 years of services to the city of Toronto (he was the president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police).



Blair is also known for being a controversial person. In 2013, he came into a big conflict with the ex Toronto mayor Rob Ford after confirming to the media that the department of police had obtained a video of Ford smoking crack cocaine. There was a lot of problems, and Blair always said that he was "dissapointed" in the major. Bill also was in conflict with a lot of members of the police board over resistance to work on reforms as well as his resistance to cut the police service´s budget. However, we must talk abou Bill Blair as a very compromised person with this community. For instance, in the year 2009, the ex police man began to mark a record number of tips to Crime Stoppers: "We saw a significant decline in crime last year" used to say.

Bill Blair took an easy victory the past October for the Liberal in the federal elections. Below you can see a video that shows the moment when Blar wins the Scarborough Southwest ridings.