First elected to municipal council in the fall of 2003 as the Area Councillor for Ward 2, Town of Caledon, Allan Thompson is now taking on the new role as his constituents' representative at the regional council table. He is excited to begin this new opportunity and commits to advocating strongly and effectively for his constituents and the Region of Peel partnership.

A lifelong resident of the Town of Caledon, Allan, and his wife, Anne, are raising their two children on his family farm, which has been in the family for four generations. In an era where "work where you live" is enjoying increased popularity, both Allan and Anne already subscribe to and practice that philosophy. Allan is a registered insurance broker with Caledon-based Mellow Insurance Limited of Bolton and Anne maintains a successful-home based journalism and communications business.

Active in his community, Allan is a Sunday School Teacher at Union Presbyterian Church and has served on various committees within the congregation.

Within the agricultural community, he is a past president of each the Peel Federation of Agriculture, the Peel Soil and Crop Improvement Association and the Halton-Peel Holstein Club. In 2002, he was the chairman of the Halton-Peel Hay West Committee, which saw the farmers and agribusiness communities of the Regions of Peel and Halton work together to donate 36 railway cars of hay. The hay was gathered and shipped from the Snelgrove shipping yards and made its way west to help the farmers in western Canada whose hay crops had been devastated by the prolonged drought.

He has served on numerous executives and committees throughout the Town of Caledon and the Region of Peel and prior to his election on council, he served as a member of the Greater Toronto Area agricultural committee studying land use issues.