Richard Madan is a TV personality and currently a Parliamentary reporter with CTV National News. Until January 2010, he was Political & Money Specialist on Citytv in Toronto. He was seen on, CityNews at 6 and CityNews Tonight. An accomplished journalist and political specialist, Madan has covered several federal elections, and was CTV?s lead reporter assigned to the NDP for the 2011 Federal election, chronicling the party?s meteoric rise. Madan has also covered provincial elections, U.S. Primaries, and was reporting live from Chicago when Barack Obama was first elected President of the United States. Madan is at home covering high profile international assignments ? from political summits to trade missions around the world. He has also reported live from earthquake-devastated Haiti. Born and raised in Georgia, U.S., Madan moved to Canada as a child at the peak of Pierre Trudeau's National Energy Program, while the post-Nixon/ Watergate scandal continued to evolve in the United States. These controversial and historic events sparked Madan?s interest and subsequent career in politics.