Ontario. Young also increased the hourly payment rates of Legal Aid Ontario workers by 5% an hour. After a cabinet shuffle on February 25, 2003, Young became the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Many expected that Young would be re-elected in the provincial election of 2003, despite a general decline in Tory support throughout Toronto. Young's performance in cabinet was generally respected, and he was sometimes described as a possible successor to Eves as party leader. The provincial trend, however, was too much to overcome: the Tories were defeated in all of their Toronto seats, and Young lost the Willowdale riding to Liberal candidate David Zimmer by 1,866 votes. In 2014, David served as a senior advisor, executive committee member and legal counsel to the successful John Tory campaign for Mayor of Toronto. Cabinet positions References External links 1957 births Attorneys General of Ontario Living people Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Politicians from Toronto Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 21st-century Canadian politicians