He was also his Executive Assistant. Baker takes the riding, when he wins, from Liberal MPP Donna Cansfield who is retiring.
Yvan Baker in his own right is accomplished as well. He is a consulting business owner in the areas of retail, energy, financial services and telecommunications, and teaches Master of Business Administration (MBA) students at York University's Schulich School of Business. Baker is a MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (USA). “I want to take those skills to Queens Park,” said Baker.
Baker travelled to Rwanda where he trained social entrepreneurs. He was a Board Director of “Leave Out Violence” and has worked on a number of charitable and humanitarian causes. For his service to the community he received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Baker has impressive credentials for his work in the Ukranian community. He is a past President of the Ukranian Canadian Congress-Ontario and continues to lobby Ontario MPP's of all parties to include information of the man made famine into the Ontario school curriculum. He worked on creating the Ukranian Heritage Day with MPP's of all three parties.
Baker is proud of most of the Liberal legacy, in education, health care and other achievements. He is worried about the proposed Progressive Conservative cuts and the impact they would have on education, healthcare, handicapped and seniors like happened during the reign of former Premier Mike Harris.
“I am proud that Premier Kathleen Wynne asked the federal government to impose sanctions on President Yanukovich's government when the demonstrations were happening in the Ukraine,” said Baker.
The campaign headquarters is in a retired restaurant at 140 Le Rose Avenue (phone 647-982-2537) strip mall where both parents were recruiting campaign workers. “We could use more help,” said Oleksiuk.
Since Baker was trained by Wresnewskij the help he could be to Eastern Europeans is enormous.
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