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11 Facts About Susan Fish

1.

Susan Fish served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.

2.

Susan Fish's father was a sailor in the US Navy and her mother was Brazilian.

3.

Susan Fish attended St Lawrence College where she received a degree in political science and obtained a masters in public administration at New York University.

4.

Susan Fish married Christopher Fish and the couple moved to Toronto to start a new life.

5.

Christopher returned to New York shortly thereafter, but Fish stayed and started work at the Bureau of Municipal Research.

6.

Schiller, using her then married name Susan Fish, was elected to Toronto City Council as a reform alderman in 1976, and served until 1980.

7.

Susan Fish ran for Bill Davis' Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1981 Ontario election and was elected as Member of Provincial Parliament for the St George constituency in downtown Toronto.

8.

Susan Fish supported her friend Larry Grossman in his unsuccessful bid to succeed Davis in 1985.

9.

Susan Fish returned to politics in the 1991 municipal election when she ran for Mayor of Toronto against Jack Layton, June Rowlands and Betty Disero.

10.

Susan Fish has served on the Ontario Land Tribunal from 2005 to 2021.

11.

Susan Fish justified her ruling by employing two controversial arguments.