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About Jonathan Scott

Jonathan Scott was elected Town Councillor for Ward 2 in Bradford West Gwillimbury in a December 2020 byelection and was reelected in October 2022 with over 79% of the vote. He works as Vice-President at Key Gordon Inc, a Toronto-based advertising firm. He is an experienced consultant for advocacy, business development, government relations and communications. He was previously director of communications for the Ontario government caucus and owned his own small business. Jonathan is a regular political panelist on CTV News Channel, CBC News and Sirius XM Radio, and his writings on politics, marketing, education, religion and current affairs have appeared in Monocle, Salon, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, iPolitics, The Huffington Post, The Federalist Trust, The Presbyterian Record, Education Canada, Education Today, Bradford Today and as a regular columnist with Loonie Politics. As a municipal councillor, Jonathan serves as chair of the Green Initiatives Committee, vice-chair of the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority and on the Strategic Projects Committee. Previously, he was Council’s liaison to the Food Bank, chair of the Downtown Revitalization Committee, vice-chair of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library Board, on the Economic Development Committee, Anti-Racism Committee, and was a student trustee on the Simcoe County District School Board. He is also a member of the Ontario Greenbelt Council. Jonathan was a board member of St John’s Presbyterian Church and was awarded the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury ‘outstanding achievement’ civic award in 2007. Jonathan is an honours graduate of Bradford District High School and the University of Toronto, earned his law degree with honours at Cardiff School of Law and Politics, and a certificate in Canadian law at Queen’s University. He is studying for a Master’s of Business Administration at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.


Read Columns By Jonathan Scott

Should the safety of a town be financed by speeding fines?

November 22, 2024

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Two economic visions from different corners of the Anglosphere

November 3, 2024

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Dr Jane Philpott: Health systems have stagnated under the weight of cowardice and short-sightedness

September 4, 2024

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‘Rory the Tory’ paints a picture of a broken system in his recent bestseller

August 14, 2024

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Godspeed, Madame Vice-President

July 23, 2024

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Pierre Poilievre needs to stop using food banks as political props

July 16, 2024

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Trudeau needs to hope for a change in the public mood over the summer

June 28, 2024

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The British election is a reflection of a nation grappling with its identity in a rapidly changing world

June 21, 2024

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Municipal Politics: You’ve got to get the basics right

May 27, 2024

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The best political TV drama from the past decade is…

February 20, 2024

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Municipalities need more support to “go green”

January 29, 2024

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Welcome to 2024 and the pre-election season

January 9, 2024

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We need to put the ‘public’ back into Ontario public transit

May 12, 2022

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Zelensky: I am here

March 21, 2022

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Are the Tories living in a separate reality?

March 2, 2022

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The Freedom Convoy should be a wake-up call for Canada and the wider world

February 23, 2022

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