Judy Darcy (born 1950) is a Canadian health care advocate, trade unionist, and former politician.
Darcy was born Ida Maria Judith Borunsky in Denmark and came to Canada with her parents when she was 18 months old.
Her father was a research chemist who was a shipping clerk for years until he could re-establish his credentials in Canada and resume work in his profession.
With Paris occupied by the Nazis, Borunsky convinced his father that it would be safer for him to join the rest of the family in Kovno, Lithuania.
Traumatized by the war and the loss of his family, and afraid of further anti-Semitic oppression, Borunsky continued to hide his Jewishness from everyone except for his wife until later life.
After his retirement, her father started attending Holy Blossom synagogue and the Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living in order to rekindle his Jewish roots and gradually revealed his story to his children.
Darcy, however, did manage to retain a spot on the union's executive board topping the slate of "member at large" positions.
saying that said she stands for strong leadership to help CUPE cope with "some of the incredibly difficult challenges we'll see in the next few years, especially in light of free trade.
"[15] In the 1988 federal election, Darcy was the NDP's candidate against Liberal Frank Stronach and Progressive Conservative John E. Cole in York—Simcoe[14] placing a "distant third"[17] in the suburban Toronto riding.