Andy Fillmore


Peter Alexander Fillmore is a Canadian Liberal politician who has represented the riding of Halifax in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.

Early life and education

Born in Bloomington, Indiana to Atlantic Canadian parents studying abroad in the United States, Fillmore returned to the family's native Nova Scotia at the age of four. In Halifax he attended Tower Road School, Halifax Grammar School, Gorsebrook Junior High, and Queen Elizabeth High School. He began his post-secondary studies in engineering at Acadia University but transferred to the Technical University of Nova Scotia where he completed an undergraduate architecture degree in 1990, followed by a graduate degree in urban and rural planning in 1992. He was awarded a graduate degree in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995.

Career

An urban planner and urban designer by profession, Fillmore began his career in Massachusetts and Maine, working on the Big Dig project in Boston as an urban designer. He later moved to Maine where he was the Town Planner in Cumberland, Maine, and subsequently founded the architectural design and town planning firm Interurban Planning & Design. In 2005, he returned to Nova Scotia to serve as the first ever Manager of Urban Design for the City of Halifax, leading the implementation of the "HRM by Design" Downtown Halifax Plan. He also served as Director of Dalhousie University's School of Planning, and was Vice President, Planning & Development of the Waterfront Development Corporation Limited, a crown corporation charged with revitalizing prominent post-industrial waterfronts in Nova Scotia.
As Member of Parliament for Halifax in the 42nd Canadian Parliament, Fillmore was appointed to the all-party Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs. On February 4, 2016, he was elected as the chairman of the committee. Beginning in January 2017, Fillmore was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Democratic Institutions. Beginning September 2018, Fillmore was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism. Following his reelection to the House of Commons in the October 2019 federal election, Fillmore was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to Canada's Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.

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