Borys Wrzesnewskyj ( ; born November 10, 1960) is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Etobicoke Centre in the House of Commons of Canada. He held the riding from 2004 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. He is a member of the Liberal Party. Background Wrzesnewskyj was born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada (now a part of Toronto). He is a third-generation Ukrainian Canadian, of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, and partly Polish from paternal family. He attended Humber Valley Village Public School and Upper Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Commerce from Trinity College, University of Toronto and has been a member of Plast. He speaks English, Ukrainian, Polish, French, and Spanish. He is the owner of Future Bakery, founded by his grandparents, and M-C Dairy. Humanitarian work Wrzesnewskyj is known for his humanitarian work both in his riding of Etobicoke Centre and abroad, including helping children causes in Ukraine. Through Future Bakery, Wrzesnewskyj was one of the original sponsors of the Out of the Cold program to aid the homeless and numerous other charitable organizations working in a number of Toronto's most challenging neighbourhoods. In the late 1980s he helped organize and finance the nascent Rukh Movement (People's Movement of Ukraine). In 1991, financed and organized a group in support of the referendum for the independence of Ukraine. One of his projects was an underground printing press which produced and distributed several million pieces of pro-independence literature in the South and East of Ukraine. Throughout the 1990s, he was involved with various civil society and humanitarian projects in Ukraine, such as the building of libraries and providing scholarships for gifted students. Through his family foundation, Wrzesnewskyj has provided funding support for the following: The Ukraine Transparency and Election Monitoring Project to train independent election scrutineers in Ukraine. The Ukraine List electronic periodical of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies (University of Ottawa) targeting policy specialists and academics. The delivery of Ukrainian News to every MP and Senator in Canada's Parliament. The publication and delivery of Ukraine Analyst to members of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group. Ukrainian courses at The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the University of Toronto. Grants for archival research into Ukrainian national movements during World War II. The republication of books about Ukrainians who perished in the Holocaust. Archival research into victims of the Holocaust and Soviet terror in