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David Soknacki is a Canadian business owner and former politician. He was born on September 9, 1954 in Scarborough, Ontario. He is 66 years old.
Soknacki is the owner of a spice company, Soknacki Foods, which he founded in 1983. He has also served as a city councillor in Scarborough from 1985 to 1997. He was the mayor of Scarborough from 1994 to 1997.
In 2003, Soknacki ran for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, but lost to Ernie Eves. In 2014, he ran for mayor of Toronto, but lost to John Tory.
Soknacki has an estimated net worth of $2 million. He has earned his wealth through his business and political career.
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David Soknacki Net Worth
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In 2017, Soknacki was one of the applicants for appointment to city council to succeed the late Ron Moeser in Ward 44. Jim Hart was later appointed to fill the vacancy and ward was abolished in 2018.
One of the themes of Soknacki’s 2014 candidacy for mayor was the reform of the Toronto Police Service. On February 16, 2016 Soknacki was appointed to the Toronto Police Transformation Task Force, which issued its Final Report on January 26, 2017.
After polling in single digits since the official start of his campaign, he announced on September 9, 2014 that he was withdrawing his candidacy.
On September 30, 2013, he announced that he would run for Mayor of Toronto as a fiscal conservative against incumbent mayor Rob Ford. He registered on January 6, 2014.
On June 4, 2007, Soknacki was appointed Chairperson of the federal Crown Corporation Parc Downsview Park Inc for a five year term. The major objective of the term was to develop and obtain agreement from all levels of government for a financially self-sustaining park. Not without controversy, Toronto Council, local community associations and other levels of government approved the Downsview Area Secondary Plan in 2012.
On August 22, 2006, Soknacki announced that he was retiring from politics. He gave no reasons for leaving city council but said he was returning to run his spice importing business. He gave his retirement date as the end of the council term on November 30, 2006.
During his first term on city council, one of his accomplishments was the creation of a position of poet laureate for the city. He was seen as a centre-right member of city council, but also had links to the left. Unusually for a conservative, he was endorsed by the left-leaning NOW magazine in the 2003 municipal election, and was appointed to the important position of budget chief by mayor David Miller in 2003, despite Soknacki's support for Miller's rival John Tory in the mayoral election.
When Scarborough was amalgamated with the City of Toronto and four other municipalities in 1997, ran for a seat on the new Toronto city council, but came in third, losing to Faubert and Ron Moeser. In June 1999, Faubert died of cancer and a by-election was called to replace him. Soknacki won by a considerable margin in a field of seven candidates.
He ran for Scarborough city council in 1991, but lost to Frank Faubert. When Faubert ran for the mayor's job in 1994, Soknacki tried for the seat again. This time he was successful, defeating Glenn De Baeremaeker and Zephine Wailoo.
Soknacki graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1976. In 1978, he received his MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario.
He moved to eastern Scarborough in 1963, and founded the Densgrove Park Community Association.
David Soknacki (born September 9, 1954) is a Canadian municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario. He was a councillor in Scarborough from 1994 to 1997 and then served as a Toronto City Councillor from 1999 to 2006 representing Ward 43 in the western half of the Scarborough East riding. He was a candidate for Mayor of Toronto in the 2014 election.