Name: Duri Naimji, Candidate for Mayor of Toronto, Nov. 10, 2003.

Biographical notes: Born in Guyana; with wife, children... the full catastrophe...

Main Achievement: Writing a thesis: Promotion of Rationality as the Central Aim in Education (1991, University of London).

Profession: Teacher; Qualification: BA (Hons.), Philosophy, MA (Education)...

Interests:

Priorities: Will focus on, support and lead towards: a safer, cleaner, lovelier, healthier and richer city. Each citizen and resident is entitled to safer streets, clean air, purer water, warm homes, paid work, fearless and pleasant life… Citizens will be reminded, invited, expected,.. to treat Toronto as belonging to them and not just to City Hall workers, police constables or drivers inside windshields. Citizens will be actively performing their civic duties, activities, roles. First, by turning out to vote, and next, by being eyes, ears, hands and voice of their streets.
No to extravagant foreign trips; No to swollen salaries for councillors to discourage unsuitable candidates; No to Casinos or New York owners of TTC train Carriages. No to “big boss” style mayor whose ambition has been to gain and keep high office. Yes to a mayor who stands for office because citizens of Toronto deserve more than a self interested, monopolizer and manipulator of media, to serve/lead a sophisticated and diverse city which has so many needy people and their main strength is their numbers!