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Lorenzo Berardinetti
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'''Lorenzo Berardinetti''' is a
politician in
Ontario,
Canada. He is currently the member of the
Legislative Assembly of Ontario for
Scarborough Southwest, representing the governing
Ontario Liberal Party.
Mr. Berardinetti was born and raised in
Scarborough, Ontario Scarborough, and is a lawyer. He has degrees from the
University of Toronto and the
University of Windsor Law School, and was called to the Ontario Bar in
1988.
Berardinetti was a councillor in the Scarborough from
1988 to
1996, and represented Ward 37 (Scarborough Centre) on the amalgamated
Toronto City Council from
1997 to
2003. In
1997, he served as chair of Toronto's administration committee, which created the framework for a unified civic administration in the amalgamated city. Berardinetti was generally regarded as an ally of Toronto
mayor Mel Lastman during his years on the Toronto council.
In the
Ontario general election, 2003 provincial election of 2003, Berardinetti defeated incumbent
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Progressive Conservative Dan Newman by about 6,000 votes in Scarborough Southwest. The Liberals won a majority government under
Dalton McGuinty in this election, and Berardinetti was appointed the deputy government
Whip (politics) whip on
October 23,
2003.
He became prominent for his
private member's bill, introduced in
2004, to outlaw what he called "
gender-based pricing," whereby prices for equivalent or similar products and services, such as
clothing,
dry cleaning and
haircuts, may vary between women and men. He contended women were charged much more for many products and services, which he had only discovered when he went shopping with his new wife. The bill reached
second reading in early
2004.
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