Irek Kusmierczyk MP (born January 16, 1978) is a Polish-Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Windsor—Tecumseh in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election.
He worked in government at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an Atlantic Council of Canada Fellow and published a book chapter on cross-border environmental cooperation between local governments around the Great Lakes basin.
He worked on Species-at-Risk remediation around Ojibway Park as part of the Windsor Essex Parkway Project.
[3] His family arrived in Canada in 1983 as political refugees after his father was imprisoned as a member of the Solidarity movement, which opposed the communist dictatorship and established the first free and independent trade union in communist Eastern Europe.
They immediately settled in Windsor where his father worked as an engineer in the automotive industry.