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From a wealthy background Heap attended the elite Upper Canada College but soon rejected upper class pretensions and turned to socialism. He became an Anglican minister and was renowned for his help in the community, which went so far as to sell his home to help the poor.
Heap entered politics to continue to fight poverty and homelessness and thus joined with the leftist NDP. He was elected to Toronto city council and when Liberal incumbent Peter Stollery was appointed to the Senate decided to run for the federal parliament in the subsequent 1981 by-election. Heap defeated the Liberal Jim Coutts to take the riding and was reelected in the 1984 and 1988 Canadian elections. He retired prior to the 1993 election.
Heap was an outspoken MP, becoming a prominent spokesperson for social justice issues both in Canada and abroad becoming much concerned with issue such as refugees the situation in East Timor and South AfricaSouth Africa is a republic at the southern tip of Africa. It is bordered to the north by Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the north-east by Mozambique and Swaziland. Lesotho is contained entirely inside the borders of South Africa. South Africa is one o. Heap is also noted for hiring a young Olivia ChowOlivia Chow ) is a left-wing Canadian politician and city councillor in Toronto. Born in Hong Kong, Chow emigrated to Canada when she was thirteen years old. As a result, she enjoys fluency in two of her constituency's dominant languages, Cantonese and En as his assistant.
Despite retiring from politics Heap is still involved, strongly backing the anti-war movement and supporting NDP candidates in the region.
| Preceded by: Peter Stollery , Liberal |
Members of Parliament from Spadina | Succeeded by: Riding abolished in 1988 |
| Preceded by: Riding created in 1988 |
Members of Parliament from Trinity—Spadina | Succeeded by: Tony IannoTony Ianno is a federal Canadian politician with the Liberal Party. He was first elected to the House of Commons in Trinity—Spadina in the 1993 election. He was re-elected in 1997, 2000 and 2004. Ianno graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bache, Liberal |