Former Edmonton MP Jaffer expected to run for mayor in fall's election
Rahim Jaffer leaves the courthouse in Orangeville, Ont., on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says he's confident Ontario Provincial Police have learned from 'mis-steps' they made during the arrest of Rahim Jaffer.
A former longtime member of Parliament is running to be Edmonton's next mayor.
Rahim Jaffer, who at age 25 in 1997 became the first Muslim elected to the House of Commons, is expected to announce he is running for mayor in this fall's municipal election.
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Media have been invited to restauranteur Jaffer's Rooster Kitchen and Bar on Whyte Avenue on Wednesday afternoon for 'a significant announcement about the future of Edmonton,' his media team said in an email.
A social media account on X, which uses the handle VoteJaffer, has yet to post any content but is expected to livestream the announcement starting at 4 p.m.
The 53-year-old served as the Reform Party MP in the federal Edmonton-Strathcona riding for 12 years. Jaffer won four terms in office – in later years for first the Canadian Alliance then, after a merger with the Progressive Conservatives in 2003, the Conservative Party – before losing a close race to the NDP's Linda Duncan in the 2008 vote.
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