Michael Laxer is a Canadian shopkeeper and political activist.

He has run for the New Democratic Party in the 2000 federal election in the riding of Scarborough—Agincourt, and as a candidate for the Ontario New Democratic Party during the 2003 provincial election in Scarborough Centre.

Laxer lives in the Toronto neighbourhood of Long Branch, in Etobicoke, where he and his wife own and operate a used book store.

In 2008, he criticized the $15,000 entrance fee for the Ontario NDP leadership election as being too high saying, "What you get by doing that is you manifestly limit the number of people who are outside the party establishment, and who have available big backers of one kind or another."^[1]

He is the son of writer, academic and one-time NDP leadership candidate James Laxer.

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• Community Roots bookstore business profile
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