organizations since moving to the city in the mid-1970s, and participated in the 1996 Team Mission trade mission to South Asia. He received a Governor General's 125th Commemorative Canada Medal in 1992, and was granted an Outstanding Contribution Recognition Certificate from the Premier of Ontario in 1994. Hundal campaigned for the Brampton City Council in 1982, but was defeated. He was originally a member of the Liberal Party, and in 1990 challenged sitting Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Carman McClelland for the Ontario Liberal Party nomination in Brampton North. Hundal charged that McClelland was ignoring the concerns of Brampton's Sikh community. McClelland denied this, and noted that over 550 party members from Brampton North's Sikh community supported his renomination. McClelland won the challenge, 1,002 votes to 827, in a contest that was marked by open hostility between the candidates. Hundal later ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in Brampton Centre in the 1997 federal election, and finished third against Liberal candidate Sarkis Assadourian. He was chosen as the Conservative Party's candidate in 2004 after it was discovered that Gurjit Grewal, the party's original nominee, had faced an assault charge in the early 1990s. He received 11,182 votes (27.53%), finishing second against Liberal candidate Ruby Dhalla. Brant: Greg Martin Greg Martin is a professional firefighter. As of 2010, he had served twenty-five years with Toronto Fire Services and held the rank of captain. He was a member of the Brantford city council from 2000 to 2010, representing the third ward. After a failed bid in 1997, Martin was elected to council at age forty in the 2000 municipal election, defeating former mayor Bob Taylor for the ward's second seat. He was re-elected in 2003 and 2006, but lost in 2010. Martin became vice-chair of the health board in 2002 and later chaired the corporate services committee and the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre expansion work group. He attempted to replace Marguerite Ceschi-Smith as chair of the city's brownfield committee in 2004, but was defeated. Generally, Martin was known as a fiscal conservative. He was the only councillor to vote against a twenty-year downtown revitalization plan in 2002, saying that the region had already received too much money. He was also the only councillor to vote against sending a trade delegation to Italy in 2005, and the following year he was one of two councillors to vote against continuing a grant