Justin Trottier
| Justin Trottier | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Justin Trottier 4 December 1982 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Bachelor of Applied Science, Engineering |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Occupation | Political Candidate, Executive Director of an Educational Charitable Organization, Writer, Public Speaker |
| Years active | 2002-present |
| Relatives | Lorne Trottier |
Justin Trottier (born December 4, 1982) is an English-Canadian writer, non profit executive director and former political candidate. He was one of several founding members of secular humanist organization the Centre for Inquiry Canada in 2007, and in 2009 he was one of the national spokespeople for the Canadian atheist bus campaign. In 2011, he was a Green Party candidate in the 2011 Ontario provincial election. Trottier co-founded and has served as the chairman and spokesperson for the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE), and was heavily involved in CAFE's campaign to open the Canadian Centre for Men and Families in 2014. He currently serves as the Center's director.
Trottier graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Engineering Science in 2006. His uncle, Lorne Trottier, is the co-founder of Matrox computing.
In 2005 Trottier founded the University of Toronto Secular Alliance with Jennie Fiddes. The organization successfully lobbied for the secularization of the University of Toronto's graduation ceremony through the removal of convocation prayers.
In March 2006 Trottier opened the Secular Freethought Centre, the first community centre in Canada for secular humanists. By January 2007 the Secular Freethought Centre had become the Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFI) and Trottier was hired as its first Executive Director. CFI currently operates 10 branches in Canada as a national educational charity. Until 2011, Trottier served as chief spokesperson and led the national office.
In June 2010, Trottier hired Nathan Phelps, the estranged son of Pastor Fred Phelps of the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, to head up the Calgary, Alberta, branch of the Centre for Inquiry.
Trottier co-founded the One School System Network which advocates for the defunding of the tax-payer supported Roman Catholic School System in Ontario. The One School System Network lobbied against the Conservative Party leader John Tory's 2007 election campaign proposal to fund all private faith-based schools in Ontario fully.
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