Educator and local activist Steven Erdelyi was first elected as a City Councillor of Cote Saint-Luc District Four in 2005. Steven was re-elected with 94% and 71% of the vote, in his last two elections. This set the stage for Steven Erdelyi to continue to work on improvements to District 4 and Cote Saint-Luc as a whole. Erdelyi is chair of the CSL Audit Committee and co-chaired the CSL – Hydro-Quebec Working Group looking at the effect on Cote Saint-Luc of the new Aqueduc-Saraguay project.

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Since 2013, Steven Erdelyi has worked as Principal, then Head of School of Solomon Schechter Academy after serving as Principal of Hampstead School and Vice-Principal of Westmount High School. Previously, he was the head of the Science Department at Marymount Academy where he taught Math and Science for six years. He has served Quebec’s English-speaking community for many years through his positions as a member of Alliance Quebec’s provincial Board of Directors and Vice-President of the Alliance Quebec Youth Commission. Erdelyi also worked as a Project Coordinator for Alliance Quebec, where he successfully lobbied for improved services in English for Montreal-area residents.

Erdelyi, who worked very closely with former mayor and current MP Anthony Housefather and Mayor Mitchell Brownstein and, played an integral role on the Cote Saint-Luc Demerger Committee. During the demerger campaign, he focused much of his efforts on District Four.

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Steven is also known for co-founding MATCH-LQ, a political action group seeking to encourage young people to stay in Quebec. During his days at McGill University, he was an active representative on the Student Council where he initiated a Library Improvement Fund that has raised over $10 million. In the past, he has co-chaired a fundraising committee at the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts and was a member of the Young Leadership Israel Advocacy Initiative.

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Erdelyi served a two-year term on the board of La Symbiose, a non-profit group aiming to help new immigrants to the area adapt to life in Canada. He was a member of the Montreal Jewish Hereditary Disease Fund, whose aim is to raise awareness and promote screening of common genetic diseases. He served on the board of the Quebec-Israel Committee, and then was on the board of the organization's successor, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs - Quebec.

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Steven just completed his term as the president of the Association of Professional Educational Leaders (APEL) which consists of all the principals and heads of school of the various Jewish Day Schools in the Province of Quebec. Steven was recently appointed as a member of the provincial Advisory Board on English Education (ABEE). The ABEE’s purpose is to advise the Minister of Education on all matters affecting the educational services offered in English in Quebec. He will be joining the board of the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in October. CAIS is the association of nearly 100 private schools across Canada.

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Erdelyi is a graduate of Queen's University with a B.Ed. and McGill University with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry. He completed a post-graduate degree in Educational Leadership at McGill University. He is fluent in English, French and Hebrew and partly fluent in Japanese. In 2007, he and his wife, Randi Berman, welcomed the birth of their son, Matthew, and in 2009, the birth of their daughter, Bailey.

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“Steven is someone I rely on for advice on all issues of importance to the city. He is a tremendous advocate for the residents of District 4, constantly bringing forward ideas to improve their quality of life and ensuring concerns are acted upon in a timely manner.”
Mitchell Brownstein, Mayor of Cote Saint-Luc