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Elio Di Iorio is a City Councillor in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
background
family
business
community
Di Iorio is on the board of Element Village, a nonprofit devoted to green building and the sustainable trades that actually build things.
political work
in Richmond Hill
He has worked on the town's groundbreaking work in gathering statistics on all its greenhouse gas output to track federal Kyoto Protocol commitments.
To extend this project he is working with the Civic Efficiency Group and Federation of Canadian Municipalities to bring CitiStat to the region, to help integrate these statistics into other regional and municipal reporting. This, according to Baltimore which pioneered the program, is also a pre-requisite to any 311 service to integrate all the town's own services with those of the region they are within:
in York Region
Regionally, he has supported various initiatives widely seen as supporting "green" causes;
He led 44 regional councillors from Toronto, Canada and his own adjoining York Region in one such effort.
provincial Green Party of Ontario
He is the only elected politician who is openly affiliated with the Green Party of Ontario.
federal Green Party of Canada
He ran in a by-election for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada under its then leader Joe Clark, who visited the riding several times.
When that party ceased to exist in 2003, he became also the only elected politician who is openly affiliated with the Green Party of Canada. He has stood very strongly for its participatory democracy principle and behind the Green Party of Canada Living Platform - at times against current leader Jim Harris (politician) who began attacking it in January 2005.
At the 2004 Annual General Meeting, Di Iorio was elected the Party's International Secretary: he speaks several languages including English, French, Spanish and Italian.
He has also acted as its critic for urban and municipal issues.
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