Policy Vice President of the Young Liberals of Canada's Quebec wing in 1991, and in 1992 was elected to the Liberal Party's national executive as Policy Vice President of the Young Liberals of Canada. In that role he worked on the platform committee for the development of the Red Book, the Liberal Party platform in the 1993 campaign. When his term on the national executive ended, Housefather ran for Hampstead Town Council and was elected in 1994, defeating two other candidates. He was re-elected in 1998, and served in this capacity until 2001, when the Quebec government forced all cities and towns on the Island of Montreal to merge. Alliance Quebec President Housefather was involved in organizations working on behalf of Quebec's English-speaking minority in the 1990s. In addition to being involved with Federation CJA's Pro Montreal at its inception, he was also involved in the creation of Youth Employment Services. Both of these groups concentrated on keeping the youth of the English-speaking community in Quebec by helping them find jobs. He also served on the Board of Directors, and then as the Executive, of Alliance Quebec. Housefather was elected President of Alliance Quebec in 2000 and served until 2001, when he ran for office in the new mega-city of Montreal following the forced mergers. Councillor in the Mega-City, and Leader of the De-merger Movement (2001-05) Housefather, together with the vast majority of Mayors and Councillors of suburban municipalities, opposed the forced mergers which created the mega-city of Montreal. When the Quebec Court of Appeals ruled that the cities had no constitutional protection against the forced mergers, Housefather joined many suburban mayors and councillors who ran for election in the mega-city of Montreal, campaigning on the promise to support demerger if a new government ever permitted it. In the 2001 election, he was elected as a Councillor for the Borough of Côte-Saint-Luc–Hampstead–Montreal West, receiving approximately 70% of the vote. When the Quebec Liberal Party was elected in 2003, it set in motion a process that permitted cities and towns to de-merge from the mega-city. Housefather was alone amongst the three elected Councillors in Côte Saint-Luc-Hampstead-Montreal West to support the demerger of the three communities. In 2004, he served as co-chair of the demerger committee of the Côte-Saint-Luc along with former City Councillors Mitchell Brownstein, Ruth Kovac, and Glenn J. Nashen. He was also a member of the Hampstead Demerger Committee