Susan Kadis
| Susan Kadis | |
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| Member of Parliament for Thornhill |
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In office 2004–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Elinor Caplan |
| Succeeded by | Peter Kent |
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January 11, 1953 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence | Thornhill, Ontario |
| Profession | Newspaper publisher, volunteer worker |
Susan R. Kadis (born January 11, 1953) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Thornhill in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004-08.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Sociology from York University. A breast cancer survivor, She has served on the board of directors of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
In the late 1980s, Kadis was appointed as co-chair to a community group called Parents Advocating Student Success. She called for a provincial investigation into the practices of the York Board of Education and sought help from Ontario Education Minister Sean Conway. She claimed the board was anti-Semitic, based on allegations that there were a disproportionate number of students of the Jewish faith who failed a grade, including her own son. She succeeded in getting the province to investigate. As a result, the province then retested the students that had originally failed a grade.
In 1995 she started a local newspaper called the Thornhill Times that published for one year, closing in 1996. She is a cousin of Lorne Michaels, the executive producer and creator of Saturday Night Live.
In 1988 Kadis was elected as a York School Board Trustee. She served as school board trustee in Vaughan from 1988 to 1994. From 1997 to 2004, she was a municipal councillor.
Kadis ran for the provincial Liberal Party nomination for the riding of Thornhill in 2003, but was defeated by fellow municipal councillor Mario Racco.
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