User talk:Dscrymgeour

 Career Background 

David Scrymgeour worked internationally from the mid 80s through the early 90s as a consultant & trouble-shooter in the information industry. In 1992 he founded the first of a number of information management and training companies. Although a strong management team now runs the day-to-day operations, he remains involved as majority owner of the group.

 Conservative Party of Canada 

From 1999 through 2003 he held a number of dollar-per-year positions with the former Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark, ultimately serving National Director of the Party.

His contract expired at the end of the leadership convention that elected Peter MacKay following an agreement with David Orchard. As part of that deal, Orchard objected to him because he was seen to be a promoter of the Alliance/Progressive Conservative merger. MacKay engineered that merger despite the agreement with Orchard, leading to the formation of the Conservative Party of Canada that eventually took power in the 2006 federal election.

Green Party of Canada 

In 2004, he was hired as an advisor to the Green Party by its leader Jim Harris. This party had made an electoral breakthrough in the 2004 federal election, and Harris believed that this was due to his own centralization of power and reliance on paid staff rather than volunteers.

In two position papers entitled Green and Growing by David Scrymgeour and EDA Champions, outlined a structure for minimum critical central coordination under an Executive Director and the building of strong, self-reliant, volunteer based electoral district associations.

 Other Activities 

He has engaged as a Volunteer Advisor and Board Member for a number of organisations including Canadian Executive Services (Business Development Advisor to First Nations communities and trainer of political campaign managers in the Republic of Georgia); the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust; and the Make Poverty History Campaign.

His current focus is exploring the potential of Private-Public-Third Sector linkages, globally and locally, in the areas of Sustainable Development and the Environment.

Comments re current post
-actually he is an organisational designer, strategist and troubleshooter who does the bulk of his work in the private sector. if this is meant to be an encyclopedia entry it might make more sense to go from the general to the specific as proposed in the text above
 * David Scrymgeour is a Canadian political advisor*

-more accurately 'worked with'
 * who was once close to


 * the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

-never worked professionally for the ontario party buy did volunteer
 * and Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

-2004
 * As of 2006,

-worked with
 * he was associated with


 * the Green Party of Canada,

-unproven and of no interest to anyone other than the activist group that made the first post. why include it?
 * and was a known support of David Chernushenko for that party's leadership.

-trivial. what does this have to do with an encyclopedia. it is not harmful. it is merely frivilous. why include it?
 * He was also associated and a member of the Green Party of Ontario, having given a proxy ballot for that party's 2005 annual meeting to Dan King, who cast it on Mr. Scrymgeour's behalf on party matters.

-would not a general statement of his central occupation be most appropriate to start?
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1 Progressive Conservative Party 2 Green Party of Canada 3 Other activities 4 Footnotes Progressive Conservative Party -not an aide. did 3 weeks of volunteer work as a favour to a friend prior to the campaign. not involved during the campaign. insignificant in the context of his political work.
 * Scrymgeour had been an aide to former Ontario Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Jim Flaherty.

-true but given the above hardly relevant. this is not the Flaherty entry
 * Flaherty later was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, and was appointed Minister of Finance.


 * Scrymgeour served as national director of the federal Progressive Conservative Party in 2002-03.

-''Globe and Mail, Thursday, Jun. 5, 2003 Deal gives Tory jobs to Orchard supporters By BRIAN LAGHI
 * He lost this position as part of a deal between David Orchard and Peter MacKay that led to MacKay's assumption of leadership of the party. As part of the controversial deal, MacKay promised to remove Scrymgeour as the Tories' national director, knowing he had already come to the end of his contract and would not be renewing

OTTAWA -- Progressive Conservative Leader Peter MacKay secured his party's leadership by promising to remove the Tories' national director ... '''Mr. MacKay said the party's director, David Scrymgeour, had already agreed to leave his job on May 31, the night of the leadership vote. He said Mr. Scrymgeour had been with the party on a contract that ended that evening.'


 * and guaranteed Orchard's supporters jobs at the PC head office. [1]

In 2004, he was hired as an advisor to the Green Party by its leader Jim Harris -was hired by its national council
 * Green Party of Canada

-recommended an architecture for the creation of a national political organisation
 * This party had made an electoral breakthrough in the 2004 federal election. Scrymgeour, in a position paper entitled Green and Growing[2], recommended the appointment of an Executive Director to manage the party.

-in a second paper 'EDA champions' Scrymgeour outlined a balance between minimum critical central coordination under an Executive Director and the building of strong, self-reliant, volunteer-based, electoral district associations.
 * In two position papers, Green and Growing and EDA Champions,

Other activities -this is actually the general statement that would logically lead the entry. Scrymgeour is not a politician he is an organisational designer, strategist and troubleshooter
 * Scrymgeour 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 number of information management and training companies. Although a management team now runs the day-to-day operations, he remains involved as majority owner of the group.

-this would be more appropriately placed inder the conservative party heading. his work for Joe Clark and later Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper is infinitely more significant than his minor association with Flaherty which was discussed above
 * From 1999 through 2003, Scrymgeour held a number of dollar-per-year positions with the former Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark, ultimately serving National Director of the Party.


 * Scrymgeour also volunteered for the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO) in 2003, and as a trainer of political campaign managers in the Republic of Georgia. He has also engaged as a volunteer advisor, donor and board member for a number of organizations, including CESO, the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust, and the Make Poverty History Campaign. His current focus is exploring the potential of private-public-third sector linkages, globally and locally, in the areas of sustainable development and the environment.