Auditor General Chartered Accountants
He grew up in numerous places, including Ottawa, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Victoria, British Columbia, with two brothers and three sisters. His Father was Vice-Admiral Herbert Rayner, a hero of World World War II, in command of the HMCS Huron, earned the Distinguished Service Cross.
Carleton University.
After becoming a chartered accountant, Rayner joined the Department of Supply and Services (now Public Works and Government Services Canada), where he coordinated the installation of systems-based auditing and education programmes in the Audit Services Bureau He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1982. From 1985 to 1986, he was Comptroller General of Canada. He was then appointed to the MacDonald Commission, for the next two years.
Rayner was President of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants from 1993 to 2001.
He was sixty-one, when he died at his home in Ottawa. Rayner is interred at Rupert Union Cemetery.
Rayner became a chartered accountant, in 1969, graduating from Carleton University, with a degree in political science. He was also a board member of the The International Federation of Automatic Control Strategy Review Task Force from 1996 to 1997.
Rayner was a member of the board of governors of the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation, from 1980 to 1989.
