David Scrymgeour

T. David Scrymgeour is a Canadian entrepreneur. He is the founder of a group of companies in the information and training industries. Politically he has worked with the Green Party of Canada, the Green Party of Ontario, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He currently engages in pro bono work for sustainable development organisations and green community groups.

Green Party

In August 2004 Mr. Scrymgeour, was hired for a dollar-per-year as an advisor to the Green Party of Canada by its leader Jim Harris.^[1] In the position paper, Green and Growing, he outlined a political organisation structure that emphasised minimum critical central coordination under an Executive Director and the building of strong, self-reliant, volunteer-based, electoral district associations.^[2] In 2006 he served as Interim Executive Director of the Party and as its Director of Organisation.

In the lead up to the 2007 Ontario General Election, Mr. Scrymgeour was brought on by Green Party of Ontario Campaign Manager Jeff Brownridge to act as Director of Organizing and was instrumental in helping to deliver the first full-slate of 107 candidates in Party history. He worked with Fair Vote Ontario on the MMP Referendum during the election.

From 2007 through 2010 he served as Chief Financial Officer for the Green Party of Ontario and is currently Campaign Chair for the 2011 election.^[3]

Progressive Conservative Party

From 1999 through 2003, Mr. Scrymgeour held a number of positions with the former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada under Joe Clark, ultimately serving as National Director of the Party in 2002-03. He resigned this position as part of a deal between David Orchard and Peter MacKay that led to MacKay's assumption of leadership and caused a storm of protest within the Party.^[4]

Mr. Scrymgeour was the Progressive Conservative candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2000 federal election in the Markham riding against Liberal candidate John McCallum and incumbent Jim Jones of the Canadian Alliance.

He also managed the lead up to Jim Flaherty's campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in early 2004.^[5][6]

Business and community activity

Mr. Scrymgeour has a Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree from the University of Toronto. He worked internationally from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s as a consultant and trouble-shooter in the information industry. In 1992, he founded the first of a group of information management and training companies.

He has engaged as a volunteer advisor, donor and board member for organizations, including the Canadian Executive Service Organization, the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust, the Lung Association, the Anglican Church of Canada and the Make Poverty History Campaign.^[7]

Footnotes

1. ^ Curry, Bill (20 August 2004). "Tory executive director to advise Green Party". National Post: pp. A4. 
2. ^ Green and Growing by David Scrymgeour
3. ^ Green Party of Ontario welcomes new executive | Green Party of Ontario
4. ^ Laghi, Brian (5 June 2003). "Deal gives Tory jobs to Orchard supporters". Globe and Mail: pp. A1. 
5. ^ Benzie, Robert (19 April 2004). "Flaherty names chief aide". Toronto Star: pp. A06. 
6. ^ Urquhart, Ian (16 June 2004). "Tory man to beat in Tory race". Toronto Star: pp. A19. 
7. ^ Information pertaining to Scrymgeour's private career is taken from the "About the author" section of "Green and Growing".

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