Vince Gasparro
Vince Gasparro | |
|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State (Combatting Crime) | |
| Assumed office June 5, 2025 | |
| Member of Parliament for Eglinton—Lawrence | |
| Assumed office April 28, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Marco Mendicino |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Liberal (federal) Ontario Liberal (provincial) |
| Alma mater | York University (BA) London School of Economics (MSc) Villanova University (MBA) |
| Occupation | Politician, Banker |
| Website | vincegasparro |
Vince Gasparro MP is a Canadian politician, and former finance executive. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he has been serving as the Member of Parliament for Eglinton—Lawrence since the 2025 Canadian federal election.[1]
Background
Early career
Gasparro served as a special assistant in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada for Paul Martin and as principal secretary in the Office of the Mayor of Toronto for John Tory.[2]
Gasparro worked in private equity, working in acquisitions for Lynx Equity Limited from 2006 to 2018.[3]
In addition, he held executive roles at Scotiabank's Roynat Capital, Vancity, AgriRoots Private Credit Fund.[2] and the Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation holding roles in sustainable and clean energy finance. He has financed large institutional clean energy infrastructure projects across Canada and the United States.
Gasparro has also served on the board of directors for several organizations, including Postmedia Network where he was the liberal voice at the table to ensure balance.[4] He also served on the boards of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, WWF Canada and Toronto Community Housing.
In 2006, Gasparro founded the non-profit Project Engagement: a not-for-profit seeking to alleviate short-term poverty while looking for solutions for those stuck in a cycle of longer-term poverty. Providing meals and toys for children were some of the initiatives and one year the organization collected 40,000 kilograms of food for distribution.[5] Gasparro was recognized for his efforts and was awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship in 2010 by the Government of Ontario. It is the second highest honour that can be awarded to a citizen in that province.
Gasparro was a member of Canada's official delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conferences during COP26, COP27 and COP28.[3]
Career in elected politics
After a frightening experience involving the healthcare system and his daughter, Gasparro was encouraged to run for political office having witnessed what he described as the 'total chaos' of the healthcare system under Doug Ford.[6]
Gasparro was the Ontario Liberal candidate for Eglinton—Lawrence in the 2025 Ontario general election, Gasparro outperformed the Ontario Liberal Party by an impressive 19% but came up short to Progressive Conservative candidate Michelle Cooper by 167 votes.[7]
He ran again in Eglinton—Lawrence, this time federally, succeeding Marco Mendocino who had resigned to become Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister. Gasparro defeated star Conservative candidate and former Toronto city councillor and TTC chair Karen Stintz. Several media outlets described the race as one to watch.[8] Following the federal election, Gasparro's name was among those mentioned in the National Post for possible cabinet suggestions given his strong financial background combined with his successful political experience.[9]
On June 5th, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed Gasparro as the Parliamentary Secretary (Combatting Crime).
Personal life
He is Italian-Canadian and is married to Nicola Meyer. He has two daughters.[10]
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science from York University, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Villanova School of Business and a Master of Science (MSc) in Political Economy from the London School of Economics.[2]
Electoral record
| 2025 Canadian federal election: Eglinton—Lawrence | ||||||||
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| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | 29,936 | 49.21 | +0.73 | |||||
| Conservative | Karen Stintz | 29,061 | 47.77 | +11.32 | ||||
| New Democratic | Allison Tanzola | 1,077 | 1.77 | –7.39 | ||||
| Green | Wayne Chechuevskiy | 429 | 0.71 | –2.29 | ||||
| People's | Timothy Gleeson | 326 | 0.54 | –2.37 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 60,829 | 70.61 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 86,150 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | –5.30 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[11][12] | ||||||||
| 2025 Ontario general election: Eglinton—Lawrence | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Michelle Cooper | 19,556 | 48.48 | +6.18 | ||||
| Liberal | 19,389 | 48.07 | +7.11 | |||||
| Green | Leah Tysoe | 1,390 | 3.45 | –0.40 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 40,335 | 99.23 | –0.20 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked, and declined ballots | 311 | 0.77 | +0.20 | |||||
| Turnout | 40,646 | 46.89 | –0.17 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 86,676 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | –0.47 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[13] | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Eglinton—Lawrence live federal election results". Toronto Star. 29 April 2025.
- ^ a b c "Postmedia board member to step down to pursue political career". Financial Post. Sep 20, 2024.
- ^ a b "Vince Gasparro".
- ^ "Postmedia board member to step down to pursue political career". financialpost. Archived from the original on 2024-09-20. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ "Vincent Gasparro: Bringing food and smiles to the working poor through Project Engagement". 26 November 2015.
- ^ Ryan, Joseph (2025-02-15). "After seven years of PC representation, can Liberals turn Eglinton-Lawrence red?". CityNews Toronto. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
- ^ Team, Torstar Open Data (2025-02-28). "Eglinton-Lawrence live Ontario election results". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ Crawley, Mark (April 25, 2025). "These are the top 10 ridings to watch in Toronto and the GTA".
- ^ Staff, National Post (May 5, 2025). "Liberals' downtown Toronto sweep offers Mark Carney potential new blood for cabinet". National Post.
- ^ "Two big GTA swing ridings: Toronto-St. Paul's and Eglinton-Lawrence". torontosun.
- ^ "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 17, 2025.
- ^ "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Vote Totals From Official Tabulation" (PDF). Elections Ontario. 3 March 2025. Retrieved 4 March 2025.