Eli El-Chantiry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Eli El-Chantiry

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1957

Place of Birth: Kabelias, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Eli El-Chantiry

  • Eli El-Chantiry (born April 23, 1957 in Kab-Elias, Lebanon) is an Ottawa City Councillor. He was born in Lebanon and moved to Canada with his family at age eighteen.
  • After attending the University of Ottawa, he became a businessman, owning the Lighthouse Restaurant in Constance Bay in West Carleton. El-Chantiry ran for city council in the 2003 Ottawa election to replace retiring Dwight Eastman.
  • He won, defeating retired schoolteacher Adele Muldoon by 29 votes. After the 13 June 2007 decision by Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien to resign as Chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board, El-Chantiry was nominated as the board's new leader, an appointment to be confirmed later in June 2007.Following a public complaint on Eli El-Chantiry's 2014 campaign spending, his financials are audited.
  • The audit firm found a “clerical” error in his expense filings and a problem with the accounting of his nomination fee refund.
  • Also, there was a question of Eli El-Chantiry not accounting for reused campaign signs in 2014, but the auditor couldn’t determine a value for the signs.
  • The committee let him off the hook. Again, embattled and at the centre of several police services gaffes over the years, Ottawa Police Association president Matt Skof publicly demanded El-Chantiry's resignation in March 2016. In the 2018 Mayoral campaign, Eli El-Chantiry endorsed Jim Watson for mayor in the 2018 Ottawa municipal election.Later in July 2018, in a recorded conversations between Ottawa Police Association president, Matt Skof, and an anonymous source, it was alleged Eli El-Chantiry was the target of an undercover bribery sting. OPP investigate recordings about Ottawa police board chair As Chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board, in June 2018, Eli El-Chantiry announces the selection of Uday Jaswal, formerly of Durham Police Services, as Deputy Chief for Ottawa Police Services, "Coun.
  • Eli El-Chantiry, chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board, said Jaswal beat out four other competitors, who were shortlisted for the job as part of a country-wide search."[Jaswal] met all the criteria," said El-Chantiry.
  • "He's a young, innovative thinker.
  • He's educated, bilingual." In October 2018, El-Chantiry is voted in for the fifth time as councillor for Ward 5. El-Chantiry ceased to be a member or chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board in January 2019, being beat out by the first ever female police services board Chair.

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