Introduction
Han Dong (born c. 1977) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2014. He represents the riding of Trinity—Spadina.
Background
Dong was born in Shanghai, China. He moved to Toronto with his family when he was 13 and they settled in the Parkdale area of Toronto. He lives in Toronto with his wife Sophie and their two children.
Dong worked as marketing director of Chianti Foods and then with the non-profit Canada Shanghai Business Association. Since making the switch to politics, he spent nine years at Queen’s Park serving as Ontario Liberal cabinet minister Gerry Phillips’s MPP liaison, and most recently as a senior adviser of community outreach under then Citizenship and Immigration Minister Michael Coteau.
Politics
Dong ran in the 2014 provincial election as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Trinity—Spadina. He defeated New Democrat incumbent Rosario Marchese by 9,175 votes.
He is a Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities.
In February 2016, he introduced a private member's bill to license and regulate the Ontario home inspection industry, which prompted the Ontario Liberal government to draft its own government legislation for that purpose.