Frank Faubert, born on this date in 1931, served on Scarborough Council from the 1960s to the 1980s.  In 1987 he was elected MPP for Scarborough-Ellesmere and had the smarts (depending on your point of view of course) to hire a young guy out of university – a proud son of the Scarborough Homeland – by the name of Arthur Milnes as one of his assistants!  His EA was another youthful Scarberian, Brad Duguid, and Brad went on to serve with distinction in the provincial cabinets of Premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. While working for Frank, I learned perhaps the best response any politician could use to deflate those uncomfortable – shall we politely say – 'ideas' presented by constituents. On one doorstep during the 1990 election I watched as he heard a constituent yell at him over their dislike of Liberal Premier David Peterson – Frank’s party leader.  In response, Frank uttered the famous words: “You know, sir,” he replied, “there is a measurable amount of support out there for what you are saying.” “Why, thank you Mr. Faubert,” the man replied, obviously pleased.  And, then the man took a re-elect Faubert lawn sign for his lawn!  A lesson there for all of us involved in politics, I’d suggest. So happy birthday to a great Scarberian as he marks it from the great Scarborough Civic Centre in the sky. caption id="attachment_553016" align="aligncenter" width="250" The late Frank Faubert served as Mayor of Scarborough 1994-97/caption Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist.  He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.  A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.