David Hutcheon

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David Hutcheon is a former municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario.

Hutcheon has an honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Rutgers University and a Master's degree in public administration from the University of Western Ontario. He is a Henry Rutgers Scholar and is a recipient of the Canadian Institute of Planners S. George Ritch Award.

Hutcheon served on city council of Toronto prior to amalgamation. In 1994 he won the election in Ward 1 with 3,963 votes beating his closest rival by 781 votes.^[1] While on council he served as deputy mayor and budget chief. He also served as vice chair of the Environmental Review Tribunal.

In 1997 he ran in the first election after amalgamation in the newly created Ward 19 but finished in fourth place behind front runners David Miller and Chris Korwin-Kuczynski.^[2]

In a 2006 by-election in the Ontario provincial riding of Parkdale—High Park he ran as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. This by-election was necessitated by the resignation of former Ontario Minister of Education Gerard Kennedy, who stepped down from both his cabinet post and his seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to seek the Liberal Party of Canada leadership. Hutcheon placed third behind New Democrat Cheri DiNovo and Liberal Sylvia Watson. On June 7, 2007, Hutcheon was acclaimed as the Progressive Conservative candidate for the October 10, Ontario general election. Hutcheon again placed third.

David Hutcheon was recently asked by the Toronto Sun to give expert advice on How to Save our City which was the front cover story August 11, 2007. In the article Hutcheon explains that Torontonians "want to see value for our money." To view the complete story and video footage click on the links below.

[edit] References

• "Front Cover", Toronto Sun, 11 August 2007. 
• Abel, Dave. "David Hutcheon being interviewed", Toronto Sun, 10 August 2007. 
• "David Hutcheon quoted", Toronto Sun, 11 August 2007.