 mario g. racco (born ) is a former politician in ontario, canada. he was a liberal party member of the legislative assembly of ontario from2003 to 2007 representing the greater toronto area riding of thornhill. ==background== racco has degrees in business administration from ryerson polytechnical institute (1977) and york university. he also received a bachelor of arts degree from york university in 1992. racco has practiced as a chartered accountant, for the firms of thorne riddell and dunwoody chartered accountants. he is married to sandra yeung racco, a city councillor for the city of vaughan for ward 4 (formerly held by her husband for 6 terms). they have two children, alexander and katrina. ==politics== racco was elected to the city council of vaughan, ontario in 1982, and retained this position until his election to the ontario legislature. he ran for the federal liberal nomination in markhamâwhitchurchâstouffville in 1993, but lost to jag bhaduria. in the 2003 provincial election, racco defeated susan kadis for the liberal nomination in thornhill and ran against tina molinari, an incumbent from the progressive conservatives. denominational education was a leading issue in this campaign, with molinari supporting the extension of tax credits for religious education and racco opposing it; some members of thornhill's orthodox jewish community supported molinari because of this issue. racco eventually won by 796 votes. on march 6, 2006, he was appointed as parliamentary assistant to the minister of labour.{{cite news |title=premier mcguinty appoints new parliamentary assistants |publisher=canada newswire |location=ottaw
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