1. Jamil Jivani is the founder of the Policing Literacy Initiative, is a co-founder of Teachers Beyond the Classroom, sat on the Premier's Council on Equality of Opportunity and was the Advocate for Community Opportunities for the Doug Ford government until 2022.
Jamil Jivani was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative for the Ontario riding of Durham in a by-election held on March 4,2024, following the resignation of former Opposition Leader Erin O'Toole.
Jamil Jivani grew up with his two sisters, raised by their mother in the Ontario city of Brampton.
Jamil Jivani was part of the Innovations in Policing Clinic, in which he authored a case study of police-community relations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Jamil Jivani later revealed in 2020 that for a few years after law school, he was a card-carrying member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Jamil Jivani was appointed as a visiting scholar and visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
In 2013 Jamil Jivani founded the Policing Literacy Initiative, a youth-driven public education and advocacy group focused on community safety issues.
Jamil Jivani stated to CBC Metro Morning that the purpose of PLI is to spotlight progressive voices among police and community groups and work with them to find common solutions.
Jamil Jivani wrote an editorial for the National Post in February 2014 about his experience with Toronto Police and the Office of the Independent Police Review Director and the use of mediated conversations for citizen complaints.
On February 13,2014, Jamil Jivani was named Yale Alumni Magazine's Newsmaker of the Week.
Between 2016 until it closed in 2018, Jamil Jivani helped run the charity organization Our Ohio Renewal, founded by JD Vance, a friend from Yale; Jamil Jivani later stated the group's work was derailed because of his cancer diagnosis.
Jamil Jivani later became president of the Canada Strong and Free Network, but stepped down to announce his candidacy for the Conservative nomination in Durham.
Jamil Jivani has written about youth and equality issues for Huffington Post.
Jamil Jivani was later fired from Bell Media, which he claimed was due to him not conforming to Black stereotypes.
Bell filed a statement of defence, claiming that Jamil Jivani was let go because he showed disdain for concerns raised by Bell management over issues such as avoiding pushing back against COVID-19 misinformation and misgendering Demi Lovato.
Critics, such as his former mentor Neil Price, felt that Jamil Jivani used his role to criticize the communities that he was supposed to uplift.
Jamil Jivani moderated the first unofficial debate during the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election where he took aim at Patrick Brown, who skipped the debate by arguing that he was manipulating diaspora politics to boost his campaign.
Jamil Jivani was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative for the Ontario riding of Durham in a by-election held on March 4,2024.
Jamil Jivani has been characterized as a black conservative and a leading proponent of national conservatism in Canada.
Jamil Jivani has advocated for national conservative ideas about nationalism, the role of government, and race and Canada returning to the ideals of the Reform Party.
Jamil Jivani has stated that his views were shaped by his father who abandoned his family when he was in elementary school by arguing that he was trying to find male role models.
Jamil Jivani has praised American rapper Kanye West and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for standing up to what he sees as "cancel culture" after West was criticized for wearing a white lives matter shirt and Smith over her views about COVID-19.
In July 2020, Jamil Jivani supported the Government of Ontario decision to eliminate academic streaming in Grade 9 and most suspensions that impacted young students in the province.
Jamil Jivani has suggested that terms such as systemic criticism as well as "white privilege" has advanced critical race theory which he believes is an issue in Canada.
Jamil Jivani is a critic of the defund the police movement arguing that they do not represent the "Black Community".
Jamil Jivani added in a later interview that lack of opportunity and inadequate social services as causes behind crime.
Jamil Jivani praised federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, then-Minnesota Democratic congressman Keith Ellison, University of Toronto professor of psychology, Jordan Peterson, as positive inspirations for young males to counter extremism.
Jamil Jivani previously described that he held liberal views for a few years after law school but grew out of those views as he grew older and considers conservatism as a form of counterculture.
Jamil Jivani classified Quebec's Bill 96, which would provide most government and business services to be offered exclusively in French, as an example of national conservatism being implemented in Canada.
Jamil Jivani contributed to the 2012 anthology, Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence, In 2018, he published Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity.