About Me

John Laforet is Principal of Broadview Strategy Group, a public relations firm that works with clients around North America on a wide range of strategic objectives.

Laforet is the former President of Wind Concerns Ontario, a grassroots coalition of 58 community groups across Ontario.

He has worked at Queen’s Park as a political staffer, served a riding association President, and was the Field Manager of a national public opinion research firm. Laforet has delivered guest lectures on citizen participation in approvals processes at the University of Toronto, on grassroots lobbying and earned media strategies at Guelph-Humber and the impact of community acceptance on government decision making at McMaster.

Laforet has been active in politics since his early teens, and is one of the youngest people ever to have the opportunity to deliver an address at the Empire Club of Canada.

He currently blogs for Huffington Post Canada, and has previously written special columns for Reuters, QMI Agency and others on the energy sector.