Cho makes return to Queen’s Park

Progressive Conservative MPP Raymond RR Cho will be returning to the Ontario Legislature after winning in Scarborough North.

The race saw Cho defeat the NDP’s Dwayne Morgan, a poet and motivational speaker, and Cho’s former colleague on Toronto city councillor, Liberal Chin Lee.

Cho, 81, has been a PC MPP since September 2016, when he won wwo ugh- a Rouge byelection River. in The Scarbor- comanager of that campaign was future party leader Doug Ford. Cho was a councillor for 25 years, yy and represented Ward 42 in Scarborough’s northeast corner.

Before the campaign’s NDP surge, Cho’s strongest opponent was expected to be Lee, 65, the veteran Scarborough councillor for Ward 41 who resigned in May to run for the Liberals. Lee had held his ward, containing many neighbourhoods in what’s ww now Scarborough North, f for nearly 12 years, and served as vice- chair of the Toronto Police Services Board.

Scarborough- born Morgan, 43, founded Up From The Roots RR Entertainment, and has performed with Drake and other stars. He has written several books, and produced albums, concerts and poetry slam events. ee He was inducted into the tt Scarborough Walk of Fame in 2013.

Lee said he might run for council again if he lost.

Also running were Sean Morgan, gg a Libertarian, and Green candidate Nicole Peltier.