Steven Del Duca, Deb Schulte, Sandra Yeung Racco among crowded field in Vaughan mayoral race

7 candidates nominated for office of mayor

Thestar.com
Aug. 17, 2022
Brian Capitao

The City of Vaughan municipal election has gotten a twist.

Prominent political leaders such as Deb Schulte, Sandra Yeung Racco, and former Ontario Liberal Party leader Steven Del Duca have thrown their hat in the ring for this year’s mayoral campaign.

Schulte, a former cabinet minister who formerly represented the riding of King-Vaughan, Schulte is likely a familiar face to those in Vaughan as a regional councillor. She served as the former Minister of Seniors under Justin Trudeau. She holds a Princeton engineering degree, previously working at Bombardier prior to becoming a politician. She is a survivor of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Yeung Racco is also running for mayor. First elected in 2003, she is the longest serving Asian female politician in the City of Vaughan and York Region. She has an Associate Diploma (A.R.C.T.) from the Royal Conservatory of Music and holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from University of Toronto.

Del Duca ran for premier as the former Ontario Liberal leader. He was also the former Minister of Transportation under Kathleen Wynne’s government. Then served in 2018 as Minister of Economic Development and Growth. He studied political science and earned a law degree at Osgoode Hall Law School, though he was not called to the bar and did not practice law.

Other candidates who have declared they are running include Parveen Bola, Danny DeSantis, Robert Gulassarian and Lino Mancinella.