Veteran politician George Smitherman’s husband Christopher Peloso is missing again for the second time this year.

Toronto police requested assistance searching for Peloso, 40, Sunday evening. They say he was last seen at about 11 a.m. in the Bloor St. W. and Lansdowne Ave. area. wearing a dark blue bomber jacket with buttons on the front, grey or blue denim pants and black dress boots with laces.

Smitherman, Ontario’s past deputy premier, tweeted Sunday, “Freedom from depression has been elusive for Christopher and once again he is missing and we fear for his safety.”

A Toronto Police dog found Peloso “dirty and confused” near west-end train tracks when he disappeared in September this year.

Smitherman ran for mayor in 2010, three years after marrying Peloso at a resort in the northern mining community of Elliot Lake. They have two adopted children.

Peloso’s relatives in his hometown, Sudbury, had no comment Sunday evening. When he went missing in September, his mother, Mary Ann, said, “The first thing I thought was he needed a break, he needed to get away for a bit . . . But as things went on longer and longer, we got concerned something had happened.”

She also described Peloso as a “perfectionist,” “very patient” and “very loving. He has been a wonderful father with the kids.”

His father Reno said Peloso and Smitherman’s marriage was a happy one, “with its high and low points, just like a typical marriage.”