Peter Yuen | |
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| 源植勉 | |
| Deputy Chief of the Toronto Police Service (Community Safety Command) | |
| In office 2017–2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Liberal (federal) Ontario Liberal (provincial) |
| Website | www |
Peter Yuen is a Canadian politician and retired police officer, serving for 35 years. He served as the Deputy Chief of the Toronto Police Service from 2017 to 2022 and headed the Toronto police community safety command. [1]
He was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to East York in 1975, 11 years after his birth, [2] where his father opened a restaurant. [3] 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. [2] While investigating a gambling den as an undercover Constable, Yuen was severely beaten and mock executed after he was exposed as a police officer. [4] [5]
Yuen became the first Superintendent within the Toronto Police Services of Chinese heritage [2] and was named police officer of the year. [4] 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. [6]
In October 2024, Peter Yuen was officially nominated as the Ontario Liberal candidate for Scarborough-Agincourt. [7]
In April 2025, he was nominated as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Markham—Unionville at 2025 Canadian federal election. [8] [9] 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. [8] 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. [9] Yuen told the paper that he left the JCCC a decade ago. [9]
| 2025 Canadian federal election : Markham—Unionville | ||||||||
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| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Michael Ma | 27,055 | 50.65 | +8.22 | ||||
| Liberal | Peter Yuen | 25,133 | 47.05 | –1.18 | ||||
| New Democratic | Sameer Qureshi | 723 | 1.35 | –5.20 | ||||
| Green | Elvin Kao | 506 | 0.95 | –1.84 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 53,417 | 64.13 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 83,289 | |||||||
| Conservative notional gain from Liberal | Swing | +4.70 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada [10] [11] | ||||||||
| 2025 Ontario general election : Scarborough—Agincourt | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Aris Babikian | 13,468 | 49.39 | +0.36 | ||||
| Liberal | Peter Yuen | 11,430 | 41.91 | +4.64 | ||||
| New Democratic | Francesca Policarpio | 1,368 | 5.02 | –3.75 | ||||
| Green | Stephanie LeBlanc | 556 | 2.04 | –0.15 | ||||
| New Blue | Johan Yogaretnam | 249 | 0.91 | –0.11 | ||||
| Ontario Party | Donahue Morgan | 200 | 0.73 | –0.99 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 27,271 | 99.32 | –0.13 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 188 | 0.68 | +0.13 | |||||
| Turnout | 27,459 | 37.41 | –2.02 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 73,404 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | –2.14 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario [12] [13] | ||||||||