Timothy A. Tierney (born October 16, 1974) is the

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of Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward. He won the ward in the

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, defeating the incumbent Michel Bellemare in a narrow contest. In the

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Tierney won with 82% of the vote. In the 2022 election, he also won with 82% of the vote.

Early life and career

Tierney has lived in the Beacon Hill North neighbourhood since 1995. Prior to being elected, he served as the president of the Beacon Hill North Community Association, where he played an integral part in keeping

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open during the Ottawa East Secondary Accommodation Study in 2008 and 2009.

Political career

Tierney's past political involvement included working on the Rainer Bloess Liberal nomination campaign in 2009 in Ottawa-Orleans and many other campaigns including

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, and Terry Kilrea. Tierney is the chair of the Information Technology Sub-Committee and a member of the Transit Commission, Transportation Committee, Ottawa Public Library Board, Ottawa Community Housing, and Pineview Municipal Golf Course Board of Management. He is also a longtime board member of the Gloucester Centre Minor Hockey Association, currently serving as vice president. In 2012, Tierney was elected to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities board of directors and is currently the third vice-president. In 2021, Tierney leaked a confidential memo related to a sinkhole lawsuit on how the City of Ottawa was planning to sue its insurers for the Confederation Line project. Tierney told council colleagues that he'd been "careless," but said he didn't share the information intentionally. Tierney faced no sanction. Tierney endorsed

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in the

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Corruption scandal

On November 23, 2018, Tierney was charged by the

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for corrupt election practices. He was alleged to have offered donations to prevent Michael Schurter, a political staffer working for

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, from running against him in Beacon Hill-Cyrville Ward in the

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. Tierney denied any allegations of wrongdoing. On September 11, 2019, all charges were withdrawn by the

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after Tierney apologized in court and gave up two months of his city councillor salary. Michael Schurter reacted by saying: “Last election Tim ran on his reputation and that’s something he may not be able to do again in the future".

Electoral record

, - ! rowspan="2" colspan="2", Candidate ! colspan="3", Popular vote ! rowspan="2" colspan="2", Expenditures , - ! Votes ! % ! ±% , - , style="background-color:#fe0000;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Tim Tierney (X) , style="text-align:right;" , 7,617 , style="text-align:right;" , 81.96 , style="text-align:right;" , +0.62 , style="text-align:right;" , $26,325.77 , - , style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Miranda Gray , style="text-align:right;" , 1,265 , style="text-align:right;" , 13.61 , style="text-align:right;" , – , style="text-align:right;" , $374.37 , - , style="background-color:#FFFFFF;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Nicolas Castro , style="text-align:right;" , 411 , style="text-align:right;" , 4.42 , style="text-align:right;" , – , style="text-align:right;" , $90.62 , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total valid votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 9,293 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 97.14 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" colspan="2" , , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 274 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 2.86 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" colspan="2" , , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Turnout , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 9,567 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 40.79 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , +2.73 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" , , - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="2" , Eligible voters , style="text-align:right;background-color:#FFFFFF;" , 23,452 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#c2c2c2;" colspan="3" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="6" , Note: Candidate campaign colours are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.)
and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tierney, Tim 1974 births Living people Algonquin College alumni Ottawa city councillors 21st-century Canadian municipal councillors