Michael H. Rayner, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMichael H. Rayner
Canadian civil servant
Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1943
Date of Death: 30-Mar-2004
Profession: civil servant
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Michael H. Rayner
- Michael Harold Rayner (November 18, 1943 – March 30, 2004) was acting Auditor General of Canada from 1980 to 1981.
- He grew up in numerous places, including Ottawa, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Victoria, British Columbia, with two brothers and three sisters.
- His father was Vice-Admiral Herbert Rayner, a hero of World War II, who was in command of HMCS Huron and earned the Distinguished Service Cross.Rayner became a chartered accountant in 1969, graduating from Carleton University with a degree in political science.
- Rayner worked in numerous roles for the federal government and also worked for Price Waterhouse Associates as partner-in-charge and Deloitte & Touche as senior partner.
- After becoming a chartered accountant, Rayner joined the Department of Supply and Services (now Public Works and Government Services Canada), where he coordinated the installation of systems-based auditing and education programmes in the Audit Services Bureau.
- He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1982.
- From 1985 to 1986, he was Comptroller General of Canada.
- Rayner was a member of the board of governors of the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation, from 1980 to 1989.
- He was then appointed to the MacDonald Commission for the next two years.
- He was also a board member of the IFAC Strategy Review Task Force from 1996 to 1997.
- Rayner was President of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants from 1993 to 2001.
- He was married to Susan Elizabeth (née Crawley).
- He was sixty-one, when he died at his home in Ottawa.
- His funeral was held on April 3, at St.
- Matthew's Anglican Church in Ottawa.
- Rayner is interred at Rupert Union Cemetery.
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