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About Peter Hume (politician)
- Peter Ernest Hume (born June 19, 1963) was a city councillor in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- He represented Alta Vista Ward in the south end of the city.
- He was considered by some to have been "the most respected politician in Ottawa".Hume grew up in the Canterbury area of Alta Vista Ward.
- He attended Hawthorne Public School and Canterbury High School before graduating with a degree in Economics from Carleton University.
- He would then work as an assistant to Canterbury Ward councillor Michael McSweeney and then Alta Vista Ward councillor Darrel Kent.Hume was first elected as a city and regional councillor in 1991.
- In 1994 he was elected to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton council (when it became an independently elected position).
- He was re-elected in 1997.
- In the 2000 Ottawa election, he chose to run against Ottawa city councillor Allan Higdon for city council, as the City of Ottawa and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton were set to amalgamate the following year.
- He was able to defeat Higdon, and was acclaimed three years later in the 2003 Ottawa election.
- In 2002, Hume contributed $362.26 to the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign of Jim Flaherty.
- Hume is generally considered to be a "red Tory", who "votes in favour of social spending, but talks convincingly about fiscal responsibility."In 2004, Hume allowed a private developer to hold a private party to raise money to pay off a debt Hume had received from running for President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.
- Both Hume and the host of the party has refused to reveal the guest list to that event.
- Hume would later serve as President from 2008 to 2011.Hume was easily re-elected in the 2006 municipal elections with 70% of the vote and again in 2010 with 59% of the vote.
- Hume is currently the Chair of the City of Ottawa's Planning Committee, a position he has held since 2003.On August 22, 2014, Hume announced he would not be seeking re-election as councillor.In 2015, Hume partnered with former Minto vice-president, Jack Stirling, in a "strategic partnership to pursue development projects and to advise both the private and public sector." Stirling, the old City of Nepean’s last planning commissioner before amalgamation, is well-known as another former local bureaucrat who jumped the fence in 2001 to work for Minto as vice-president of development, using his experience to stickhandle development proposals through the city’s approvals process. In 2017, Hume was named as the first chair of a new municipal services corporation which will run the ByWard Market and Parkdale Market.
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