Tom Freda

Thomas (Tom) Freda (Born 6 July 1956) is a co-founder and current national director of Toronto, Ontario based Citizens for a Canadian Republic" , a non-profit, non-partisan organization representing the Canadian republican movement. He is the main Anglophone media spokesperson for the group.

A native of Nova Scotia, he was born in Halifax and moved with his family to Bridgewater in 1961. In 1977, he moved to Toronto to study at Sheridan College Institute and Ryerson University, where he now works in the fields of advertising, marketing, design and photography.

Freda's involvement with Canadian republicanism began in 1997 when, as an Internet activist he established the websites, Republic of Canada Online and Monarchy-Free Canada, which were instrumental in uniting republicans to form Citizens for a Canadian Republic in 2002.

Family

Freda is married, with a school-age son Alec. His wife, Dr. Jacqueline M. Brunshaw, is a Toronto-based clinical psychologist. Freda is a grand-nephew of the Hon. Robert Winters who served as a federal Cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Louis St. Laurent and Lester Pearson.

See also

• Canadian Republicanism

External links

• Citizens for a Canadian Republic website
• Canadians support breaking with monarchy:poll CTV News
• The fight for the Republic of Canada
• CTV Question Period: Constitutional debate about the Monarchy 9:27 Tom Freda and University of Saskatchewan Professor David E. Smith (click on right side link)