Peter Yuen is a Canadian politician and retired police officer,serving for 35 years. He was Deputy Chief of the Toronto Police Service from 2017 to 2022 and headed the Toronto police community safety command.[2]
He was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to East York in 1975,11 years after his birth,[3] where his father opened a restaurant.[4] Yuen attended Scarborough’s Blessed Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School. He initially pursued a degree in chemical engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton before leaving after two years to become a police officer.[3] While investigating a gambling den as an undercover Constable,Yuen was severely beaten and mock executed after he was exposed as a police officer.[5][6]
Yuen became the first Superintendent within the Toronto Police Services of Chinese heritage[3] and was named police officer of the year.[5] In April 2018,he provided an update to the public on behalf of Toronto Police Services and Constable Kenny Lam following the 2018 Toronto van attack.[7]
In April 2025,he was nominated as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Markham—Unionville at 2025 Canadian federal election.[9][10] This was after the previous candidate,Paul Chiang,stepped down after suggesting that a Conservative candidate and Hong Kong activist,Joe Tay,should be turned over to Chinese police for a bounty.[9]Robert Fife of the Globe and Mail scrutinized Yuen for previously attending events with organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party such as Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada (JCCC) in which he was listed as an honorary director.[10] Yuen told the paper that he left the JCCC a decade ago.[10] In 2015,he reportedly attended a military parade in China hosted by Xi Jinping.[11]
↑Juneau-Katsuya, Michel; Clement, Garry; Baxendale, Dean (2025). Canada Under Siege: How PEI Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party. Toronto: Optimum Publishing International. p.33. ISBN978-0-8889-0355-6. Peter Yuen, the new Liberal candidate, had also been linked to United Front groups and had reportedly attended a military parade in Beijing hosted by Xi Jinping in 2015.
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Deputy Chief of Police