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About Gord Perks
- Gordon "Gord" Perks (listen) (born 7 October 1963) is a Politician and is the current city councillor for Toronto's Ward 4, Parkdale—High Park municipal electoral district. Perks has worked for a number of environmental organizations.
- He was a writer for Pollution Probe from 1987 to 1989 and a "Pulp and Paper" campaigner at Greenpeace Canada from 1989 to 1993.
- He was executive director of the Better Transportation Coalition from 1994 to 1996 and was a senior campaigner at the Toronto Environmental Alliance from 1997 until 2006 with a focus on waste reduction and public transit.
- He also works as an adjunct professor at the Environmental Studies department of the University of Toronto.Perks was the focus of province-wide attention when he disrupted Ontario Premier David Peterson's press conference launching the 1990 provincial election campaign.
- As Peterson announced the election and began to make a statement as to why his government should be re-elected, Perks appeared with a briefcase chained to his wrist containing a tape recorder playing a recording of environmental promises made by Peterson, in an act of criticism of the Liberal government's environmental record.
- Perks also heckled Peterson with a bullhorn.
- Greenpeace and other groups inspired by Perks' disruption plagued Peterson's campaign appearances.
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