Philippine Independence Day Council: Enverga

Conservative Party Member Dept: Enverga describes himself as just an ordinary guy, who had never been an active Conservative party member or campaign fundraiser, according to The Star. I was so surprised by the appointment, because I am just a regular folk, said Enverga, 57, who is nevertheless in GTA s immigrant community for his involvement in the Canadian Multicultural Council, Asian Heritage Month celebration and the Philippine Independence Day Council and a banker with a university degree from the Philippines, Tobias Enverga moved to Toronto in 1981 and started at the bottom, in the Bank of Montreal s mailroom. That s why he was shocked to get a call from the Prime Minister s Office this fall about his appointment to the Senate as the first Canadian senator of Filipino heritage a symbol of the growing clout of the Filipino community, Canada s top immigrant source country over the past two years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.