Frank Faubert

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Frank J. Faubert (April 25, 1931 – June 20, 1999) was a Canadian provincial and municipal politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990, and was the final Mayor of Scarborough before its amalgamation into the City of Toronto. He was born in Scarborough, Ontario.

Faubert graduated from Scarborough Collegiate (now known as R. H. King Academy) and was later educated at the Ontario College of Art, receiving a degree in Fine Arts and Commercial Design. He worked as a communications consultant in private life. Faubert was also a member of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the Knights of Malta (becoming a Knight of Grace in 1981) and the Byzantine Order of the Holy Sepulchre. He married Marilyn Porter in 1956.

The University of Toronto now offers a Frank Faubert Scholarship in International Development Studies.

He was an alderman and city controller in Scarborough for seventeen years before his election to the provincial assembly, and also served on Metropolitan Toronto Council and was an executive member of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Faubert worked as Robert Stanbury's executive assistant while Stanbury was Minister of Communications.

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1971 provincial election, in the constituency of Scarborough West. He finished third, well behind Ontario New Democratic Party leader Stephen Lewis. He ran again in the 1987 election, and defeated NDP incumbent David Warner by 481 votes in the constituency of Scarborough—Ellesmere. For the next three years, Faubert served as a backbench supporter of David Peterson's Liberal government. He served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Revenue from 1988 to 1989.

The Liberals lost the 1990 election to the NDP, and Faubert lost his seat to David Warner by over 4,500 votes.

He was elected as Mayor of Scarborough in 1994, succeeding Joyce Trimmer, who had retired, defeating future Progressive Conservative parliamentarian Marilyn Mushinski. In this capacity, he led a public campaign against the 1997 amalgamation of Toronto. When amalgamation became a reality and the City of Scarborough disappeared from the map, Faubert ran for and was elected to the new Toronto municipal council from a Scarborough ward. He also supported Barbara Hall's unsuccessful mayoral campaign in the 1997 Toronto election.

Faubert died in office in 1999. Frank Faubert Forest on the south east side of Borough Drive was named in his honour.