“Building creative solutions requires patience, good humour and a deep base of policy knowledge,” - David Soknacki





H e was once a councillor in Scarborough, but in 1997 when Scarborough became a part of Toronto, he lost. Then in 1999, he won again and became an official member of Toronto's city council. David Soknacki has had a long and successful political history, but you wouldn't know it by only paying attention to Toronto's major media.

It wasn't until Soknacki retired from politics in 2006 that anyone really knew he had his own, successful business called Ecom Food Industries. The company was founded in 1986 and deals with the export, import, and sale of spices.

David Soknacki has had such success managing money that he was appointed to be Toronto's budget chief by the city's left-leaning mayor, David Miller. It would even be fair to call Soknacki one of the three fiscal conservatives running in the city's 2014 municipal election, alongside John Tory and Rob Ford. It would also be fair to call Soknacki the only conservative on the ballot without any real baggage. Yet, the question remains as to why Toronto's media has refused to treat him like a serious contender.