Ex-Ontario MPP who became homeless says it’s ‘humbling’ politicians rallying to move him out of shelter [Video]

When former Toronto city councillor and MPP Lorenzo Berardinetti found himself in a homeless shelter last year, it was a circumstance he never imagined he would face.

“What am I doing here?” he remembered thinking on his first night there. “I never thought this would have happened to me, but it happened.” 

Berardinetti, whose political career spanned 30 years in Toronto’s east end, has been living out of the Ajax, Ont., shelter since August 2023 following a bout of unemployment and a series of medical issues. 

He says he wasn’t the only person there who came from a professional background, and the experience highlighted to him how precarious life in the …