Sine Kassim Chadi (born February 13, 1956) is businessman, philanthropist and former politician. He is currently CEO and Chairman of Imperial Equities Inc. a publicly traded company on the TSX Venture Exchange. Chadi has been the CEO of companies involved in real estate and mortgage industries. Chadi was also elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1993 as the MLA for Edmonton Roper. He served one term. Political career From 1993 to 1997, Chadi was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), elected as the Liberal candidate in Edmonton Roper during the 1993 Provincial Election. The election saw the Alberta Liberal Party under Laurence Decore lose narrowly to Ralph Klein's Conservatives in what was, to that point, the closest election in Alberta history. He defeated incumbent New Democrat MLA Christie Mjolness to win his seat. Chadi served as a Deputy Finance critic as well as critic for Economic Development and Trade and Science and Research, and Treasury. He also served as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, as well as on the Committees on the Alberta Heritage Savings Fund Act, the Select Standing Committee on law and Regulations and the Select Standing Committee on Public Affairs In 1994, he ran for Leader of the Alberta Liberal Party. It was a controversial and divisive leadership process, which was ultimately won by Grant Mitchell. Chadi completed his term as MLA, and did not to run for a second term in the Legislature. Early life The Chadi Family was among Canada's first Lebanese settlers, first travelling into the Lac La Biche area in 1895, where they participated in the fur trade, set up a general store and provided some of the most significant regional competition to the Hudson's Bay Company [24]. Sine's father Mike (Mahmoud) and his wife Zeher had six children, of which Sine was the third. Zeher Chadi passed away from breast cancer at the young age of 34 in 1967. Mike Chadi expanded his business focus to the Fort Chipwyan area and opened a general store in that area in 1972 while Sine Chadi and his siblings looked after the local businesses in the Lac La Biche area [25]. Sine graduated from High School in Lac La Biche in 1973 [26] Business career Sine's earliest business activities were within his family businesses, from buying and trading furs to working in the livestock industry. Sine's business interests began to expand into