Education
University of Western Ontario. Upper Canada College.
University of Western Ontario. Upper Canada College.
He was named parliamentary secretary to the President of the Treasury Board on November 7, 2008 and re-appointed to the same position on June 1, 2011. He was also appointed parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Western Economic Diversification on June 1, 2011. In September 2013, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance.
He has served on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Joint Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Regulations and the Finance Committee.
He serves as vice-chair of the Canada-China Legislative Association, co-chair of the Canada-Philippines Interparliamentary Group, chair of the Canada-Hong Kong, Canada-Malaysia, Canada-Brunei Parliamentary Friendship Groups and vice-chair of Canada-Thailand and Canada-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Groups. He attended Upper Canada College where he graduated with an honours high school diploma in 1982.
He went on to attend the University of Western Ontario where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Administrative and Commercial Studies (American College of Surgeons - Financial Studies) in 1986, now known as DAN Management Program (BMOS). He began his career in finance with Cr Suisse in Switzerland.
He later took a position with Cr Suisse in New York and thereafter returned to Vancouver with the same firm.
In 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as senior account manager with Household Bank and in 1997 he was appointed senior vice-president of Household Bank Private Banking in Singapore. Before elected office, Saxton was Chief Executive Officer of King George Financial Corporation. Saxton enjoys playing ice hockey and snow skiing in winter and tennis, golf, water skiing and boating in summer.
He is a member of the Conservative Party. Immediately prior to being elected Member of Parliament, Saxton served as chief executive officer of King George Financial Corporation, a real-estate investment firm. Director of Canaco Resources Incorporated., a mineral exploration company.
Director of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and Yukon.
And member of the British Columbia Premier"s Asia Pacific Trade Council. In his last year at UCC, he served as head of Wedd"s House and a member of the UCC Board of Stewards.