York University taps ex-Liberal MPP Sorbara for chancellor post

Greg Sorbara named chancellor of York University

Then finance minister Greg Sorbara acknowledges a member of the opposition as he delivers the provincial budget in Toronto Thursday, March 22, 2007. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

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TORONTO - Former Ontario Liberal heavyweight Greg Sorbara will be the new chancellor at Toronto's York University.

The school says he will begin his three-year term this June.

Sorbara quit as MPP for the Toronto-area riding of Vaughan in 2012 after earlier serving as former premier Dalton McGuinty's finance minister.

He was first elected in 1985, quit politics after a decade but returned in 1999 as president of the Ontario Liberal Party, and was elected in a 2001 byelection.

The school says Sorbara did his undergraduate degree at York, earned a law degree there and received an honorary doctor of laws degree last year.