David Miller (Canadian politician)
David Raymond Miller ( born December 26, 1958 in San Francisco ) is a Canadian lawyer, politician, and was from 1 December 2003 to 1 December 2010, the 63rd mayor of Toronto. Miller belonged from 1985 to 2007 the New Democratic Party to; Since then he has no party affiliation.
Career
Born in the United States, Miller is the son of American Joe Miller and the Englishwoman Joan Miller. In 1981, the family moved to Toronto. For this reason, Miller has beside of Canadian citizenship, the United Kingdom and the United States.
David Miller was in Lakefield (Ontario) to school and then studied at Harvard University economics, where in 1981 he took off promotion. At this he was followed by a law degree from the University of Toronto, which he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1984. After graduation, he worked for the Toronto law firm Aird & Berlis LLP as an attorney, where he specialized in labor law, immigration laws and the rights of shareholders. In 1985, he represented the residents of the Toronto Islands in an arbitration process. This event marked Miller himself later than the beginning of his interest in local politics.
Political career
As a City Council
David Miller joined in 1985 the New Democratic Party (NDP ) in 1991 and ran for the first time for the political office of the City Council in Metropolitan Toronto. At that time he lost to the incumbent Derwyn Shea. Subsequently, he was the NDP candidate for the general election in 1993, where he finished fourth. In 1994 he joined again for election to Toronto City Council and was able to gain a mandate for the electoral district of Parkdale - High Park. In his office, he was a member of the committees which were responsible for the public transport system and anti- racism. In 1996, he stepped up to the election of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and succumbed to the liberal politician Gerard Kennedy. Even after the transformation of the city in 1997 he was again elected to the City Council. Also in this period, he was responsible for the interests of the public transport system. During his tenure, he sat down also promote the establishment of parkland along the shore ( waterfront ). He rejected plans for the construction of residential facilities at High Park and sat instead for the construction of affordable housing a.
Miller is generally considered a strong supporter of the public transport system and advocates for the needs of socially disadvantaged.
As mayor
Miller plans to run for mayor, the city government were known as early as 2002. His official candidacy, he announced in January 2003. His campaign he successfully took on a broad support for many political camps on time. He used the time of the election campaign a broom metaphorically to signal that he wanted to clean up the city. During one phase of the election campaign, he proposed to levy tolls for the urban motorways Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway. However, he rejected these proposals after widespread criticism of other competitors were quick to designated him as " highway robbers ". He was elected to his first election in 2003 with 43.26 % of the vote for mayor of Toronto. He sat down by his conservative competitors before John Tory, who came to 38.03 % of the vote, as well as before the former Mayor Barbara Hall, which received only 9.21% of the vote. His predecessor, David Crombie did not turn the election. In 2006, he was confirmed with 56.97 % in office and thus defeated its a contestant Jane Pitfield, who received 32.32 %. When his party membership in 2007 went out he extended it by pointing not that he would not be considered as biased and has so far been no party.
During his first tenure, Miller made strong for the construction of a bridge to the Toronto City Centre Airport, but could not prevail. In 2006, instead a permanent shuttle ferry between the mainland and the City Centre Airport was established. Thus were Kuzstreckenflüge offered by this centrally located in the city's airport, attractive. There were also considerations, also located in the downtown Downsview Airport, which serves the Bombardier Aerospace as a test airport to expand. Miller argued against by, he warned that the city itself had to choose between an industrial and a revitalized waterfront. Proponents of extensions saw this juxtaposition to be false and argued that an extension of the airport could bring about a revival. However, the population did not share the assessment of the proponent for the extension.
In April 2005, Miller asked the City Council to develop proposals to prepare the city to host the World's Fair in 2015. In May 2006, the proposal has been accepted by the City Council, but failed at the federal and provincial level due to lack of concessions. Councillor Brian Ashton described the behavior of the provincial government as embarrassing.
On 25 September 2009 Miller announced not to run in the mayoral elections for re-election.
Private
David Miller is married to the lawyer Jill Arthur since 1994. From this marriage two children were born.