Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

B.A.Sc. Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Toronto

P.Eng. Ontario

An aerospace engineer and lifelong entrepreneur, Grant has owned and operated businesses in the materials science, mining, transportation and aerospace industry sectors.

Raised in an isolated, no road, community in Northern Ontario, Grant’s mother was a nurse, and his father was a forest ranger, mayor and multi-business owner. Grant started work as an airbase dock boy at the age of 10 and has never stopped. A few decades of school and a few projects with CSA/NASA earned him a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in spacecraft design, when he solved the problem of organic polymer corrosion in low earth orbit for the International Space Station project. Since then, he has built teams and delivered technologies for low emission automotive engine designs, lower cost hydrogen fuel cells, and zero-emission aircraft – technologies that have already reduced yearly global green-house-gas emissions significantly.

He currently co-owns several businesses, including an aircraft design/manufacturing company, logistics businesses in the Canadian North, and has served on numerous public boards and associations as a technical and business advisor. Although Grant has worked all over the world, particularly in the United States, he and his family have always lived in Canada. His children are grown up. Grant and his wife have lived in the Victoria area for the past five years.

Working with Pierre Poilievre and the CPC team, Grant is determined to help bring common sense policy making and accountability back to Canada’s government in Ottawa and deliver effective representation for his community in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke. People First. Canada First