Social Work
He graduated in 1975 and found a job with the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) and the Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa-Carleton. While working for the Children's Aid Society in the early 1980s, Farber served as president of Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 454, representing over 300 social and child-care workers.
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