 rosario marchese (born january 1, 1952) is a politician in ontario, canada. he was a member of the legislative assembly of ontario from 1990 to 2014, representing the downtown toronto riding of trinity-spadina for the ontario new democratic party. ==background== marchese arrived in canada with his family in 1961. he received a bachelor of arts degree in english, french and philosophy from the university of toronto in 1978, and later received a bachelor of education degree. he taught english and french in toronto and mississauga. he is also fluent in italian. as well, he served as vice-president of the national congress of italian canadians (toronto), toronto public library board trustee, and multilingual literacy centre chair. ==political life== in 1980, he ran for school trustee in ward 4 but finished third behind incumbents patrick case and peter davis.in this election two trustees were elected to each ward. in 1982 he ran again this time being elected. he ran as an new democrat aligned trustee.school trustee elections don't run on a party system but individual trustees could run claiming alignment with a particular party. he served on the toronto school board from 1982 to 1990. during this period, he was an advocate of lingual and racial rights, worked to establish international language programs, alternative schools and school childcare, and helped to end the practi
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