Editing Ted Hsu (section)

===Politics===
He served for four years as the treasurer of the Kingston and the Islands Federal Liberal Association, and was an active member of its Policy Committee. He worked in the 2007 and 2008 provincial and federal Liberal campaigns for John Gerretsen MPP and Peter Milliken MP. Following Milliken's announcement in summer 2010 that he would not run again, a nomination contest was set up, and in November, Hsu won the Liberal nomination for the next federal election. He defeated four other contenders: former Kingston Mayor Harvey Rosen, Queen's University Law Dean Bill Flanagan, former Kingston City Councillor Bittu George, and law professor Philip Osanic.

In the federal election held on May 2, 2011, Hsu beat out Conservative candidate Alicia Gordon by less than 3,000 votes. The election was the Liberal Party's worst showing in its history and Hsu was one of only two new Liberals elected in the country.

On June 1, 2011, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae announced that Hsu would serve in the Liberal Party shadow cabinet as the Critic for Science and Technology, and for the Federal Economic Development Agency of both Southern and Northern Ontario. On November 21, 2011, Hsu was the first runner-up to Conservative MP Chris Alexander as Rookie of the Year, in MacLean's Magazine annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards.

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