He was an intelligence officer in the Philippine military, and moved to Canada in 1976.
Tiqui was fifty-one years old in 1987, and campaigned in favour of a more equitable system of taxation.
[1] He tried to challenge Sergio Marchi for the Liberal nomination in York West in the 1988 federal election, but was ruled ineligible on the grounds that his nomination papers were misfiled.
[2] Tiqui expressed concern about overpopulation in the Toronto's Black Creek area during the 1988 campaign.
[4] In addition to the campaigns listed below, Tiqui also applied to become Mario Gentile's replacement on the Metro Toronto Council in 1994 (council chose to appoint Gentile's successor rather than call a by-election).