David Scrymgeour is a controversial Canadian political advisor.

Scrymgeour had also been an aide to Ontario Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Jim Flaherty. Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English, French (in some areas) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 106 24 Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 4th 1,076,395... The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party of Ontario) is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. ... Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... James Michael Jim Flaherty, B.A., LL.B. (born December 30, 1949) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. ...

He served as national director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2002-3. 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. Ironically, this was on the grounds that Scrymgeour was chief architect of the Alliance/Progressive Conservative merger that was later to happen (contrary to the deal) under MacKay anyway, forming the Conservative Party of Canada that eventually took power in the Canadian federal election, 2006. The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ... This page is about the Canadian politician. ... Peter Mackay, 2004 Peter Gordon MacKay MP, B.A., LL.B., (born September 27, 1965) is the current deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. ... The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ... On January 23, 2006, voting in the 2006 Canadian federal election (more formally, the 39th general election) concluded. ...

Scrymgeour also worked for Nadian Executive Services Overseas in 2003, and as a trainer of political campaign managers in the Republic of Georgia. Georgia (Georgian: საქართველო Sakartvelo), known from 1991 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a country to the east of the Black Sea in the southern Caucasus. ...

Green Party of Canada

In 2004, he was hired an an advisor to the Green Party of Canada by its leader Jim Harris. This party had made an electoral breakthrough in the Canadian federal election, 2004 and Harris believed that this was due to his own centralization of power and reliance on cronies and staff rather than volunteers. Scrymgeour, in a position paper entitled Green and Growing by David Scrymgeour, advised further centralization under an Executive Director and the removal of all elected volunteers from any position of power in the Party or any ability to do more than vaguely-defined "governance" functions. This was in flat contradiction to the Party's existing constitution, last modified in 2002, that made no mention of such transfer of power nor reliance on paid staff at all. Scrymgeour's advice was particularly controversial in that it would restrict the party in its political functions to relying on a small number of people that the party could hire to work in Ottawa. This contradicted the traditions of all other Green Parties in that it disenfranchised outside advisors from NGOs in the ecology movement, academics, and people formally affiliated with other parties with recognized "green" credentials. There were numerous protests against Scrymgeour's advice for effectively removing participatory democracy entirely from the Party's ethics. There were also protests based on his involvement with Flaherty and others who had been historically very hostile to ecological goals. A small minority within the party considered him to be an outsider and saboteur who was deliberately steering the party in a disastrous direction to benefit another party or parties. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Green Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. ... Jim Harris. ... The Canadian federal election, 2004 (more formally, the 38th general election), was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ... Executive director is a title given to a person who is the head of an executive branch of an organization or company. ... This article is about the green parties around the world. ... NGO is an abbreviation or code for: Non-governmental organization Nagoya Airport (IATA code) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The global ecology movement is one of several new social movements that emerged at the end of the sixties; its growth has been stimulated by a widespread acknowledgement of an ecological crisis of our planet. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making in a democracy. ...

Though Scrymgeour himself later claimed that his advice was distorted and abused,one of the early consequences of adopting this model was the virtual abandonment of the Green Party of Canada Living Platform which had the slogan participatory democracy in action. Citing Scrymgeour's advice, in Feb. 2005 party financier Wayne Crookes pushed Harris' Council to fire Head of Platform and Research Michael Pilling and "suspend" GPC fundraising chair Kathryn Holloway from Council. These two had been the foremost and most consistent advocates of Living Platform, and it's governance corollary Living Agenda. The Green Party of Canada Living Platform is a wiki used to employ participatory democracy in the writing of this political partys electoral platform. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... The Green Party of Canada Living Platform is a wiki used to employ participatory democracy in the writing of this political partys electoral platform. ...

The controversy that erupted was profound and lasted throughout 2005 and came to be known as the GPC Council Crisis. It was blamed by many observers with the GPC's poor performance in 2006 (its vote was only up 0.2% from the Canadian federal election, 2004, after spending one million and a half dollars gained from federal subsidy in 2004-5 and reputedly three quarters of a million more borrowed for the 2006 election). The GPC's platform had been carefully positioned not to compete with the Conservatives', very different from 2004, and this was thought to have seriously disadvantaged the Liberal Party of Canada and New Democratic Party of Canada, the rivals of the Conservatives for power. The conspiracy theory gained new life immediately. The Canadian federal election, 2004 (more formally, the 38th general election), was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) currently forms the federal government under Prime Minister Paul Martin. ... This page is about the Canadian political party. ...

other parties

Scrymgeour remains a member of the Green Party of Ontario which as of January 2006 was pursuing a similar "eco-capitalist" approach as the GPC had been in 2004. One that competed with Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidates for votes. The Green Party of Ontario (GPO) contests provincial elections in Ontario, Canada. ... The as of technique is a way to deal with statements that date quickly. ... Eco-capitalism is one of several strategies of the green movement and Green Parties. ... The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party of Ontario) is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. ...