Meet Jack Siegel, the guy who led Grits’ green-light committee, and why he favours preferential ballot electoral system

When Jack Siegel is asked if he would consider running for office or becoming a full-time political staffer, he says, ‘I don’t get enough time with my kid now.’

Jack Siegel, pictured at the Duke of Richmond bar in Toronto with then-prime ministerial candidate Justin Trudeau during the election campaign last year. Mr. Siegel was chair of the Liberals' powerful green-light committee, which was in charge of approving candidates to run for the party.Photograph courtesy of Jack Siegel

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BY DEREK ABMA

July 11, 2016

Jack Siegel’s been a lawyer for more than 30 years and involved in politics for even longer. He was also the guy who oversaw the Liberals' powerful green-light committee in the last federal election and the one who decided who got to run as Liberal candidates. Mr. Siegel, 58, was born and raised...

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