a fixed income exchange designed to eliminate the inefficiencies in the Canadian Bond Market. He currently works for the Montreal Exchange. He is an active member of the Beaches Lions Club where he has helped to raise funds in support of local causes including Kew Play and Community Centre 55's Hamper program. Along with three friends, he has promoted a community-based business, The Christmas Tree Company, since 1992. This venture has also raised money for the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada. Conroy was thirty-six years old in the 2006 campaign (Toronto Star, 16 July 2006). He received 9,238 votes (18.04%) in the 2006 election, finishing third against Liberal incumbent Maria Minna. Peter Coy (Eglinton—Lawrence) Coy was born on the Isle of Wight, England in 1951. He was a flight sergeant in the British Air Training Force at age sixteen, and flew in RAF jet trainers over Germany and England. A Business Studies graduate from Crawley College, he entered the data processing profession and studied computer programming and system design. He moved to Canada in 1974. Since 1991, he has been president of Prodigm Inc., creating system designs and software for customer sales and service systems. Coy has served as president of the Toronto Operetta Theatre, chair of the outreach and social concern committee of Grace Church on-the-Hill, vice-president of the Eglinton-Lawrence Conservative EDA, and previously vice-president of the Eglinton-Lawrence Progressive Conservative riding association. He received 14,897 votes (30.25%), finishing second against Liberal incumbent Joseph Volpe. John Capobianco (Etobicoke—Lakeshore) John Capobianco (born 1965) is a Canadian corporate executive and activist. He has twice been a political candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada. Capobianco's parents immigrated from Italy in 1960. He was born and raised in Etobicoke and has undertaken a career as a consultant, rising to the position of Senior Vice President Public Affairs with Edelman Canada, one of the largest integrated communications firms. In his political life, Capobianco has been president of the Ontario PC Youth Association. During the government of Mike Harris he worked as an advisor to then-Minister of Education David Johnson. Capobianco ran for Parliament as a Conservative in the 2004 election, losing to Jean Augustine in Etobicoke—Lakeshore by almost 10,000 votes. He was again the Tory standard-bearer in Etobicoke—Lakeshore after defeating Morley Kells for his party's nomination and lost to Liberal candidate Michael Ignatieff in the 2006 federal election, losing by less than 5,000 votes.