David Sabine
Biography
David is a pragmatic problem-solver with an entrepreneurial spirit. With over 30 years of experience in software product development and digital systems management, he has built a career helping organizations streamline workflows, reduce waste, and embrace complex environments.
As a father, David strives to create opportunities for future generations that are greater than those he inherited. He understands that real progress comes not from empty promises but from deliberate action and well-structured systems. His work as a management consultant and in change management reflects this belief, helping teams and businesses unlock their potential by focusing on meaningful outcomes.
David is a thought-leader in his field, co-authoring books and blogs on cloud services, project management, and software product development. He has spoken at industry events, including a NIST conference on cybersecurity and software supply chains in 2024 and TEDxFortMcMurray in 2012.
He has also written extensively about government inefficiencies, including a book on the failures of Canada’s Phoenix Payroll System, a case study in bureaucratic mismanagement.
David grew up in Saskatchewan and has lived and worked throughout USA and Canada. Regina, Fort McMurray, Phoenix, Port Canaveral, Bahamas, Ottawa, Toronto, London (ON) and has returned to the western prairie where he now lives in Airdrie with his wife and daughters. When he isn’t driving organizational change or building new ventures, you might find him at a music school supporting his daughters' music lessons, refining his marksmanship, or enjoying time with friends and family.
Reason for running
Libertarian-leaning voters in Airdrie-Cochrane are alarmed by Canada’s authoritarian drift characterized by excessive taxation, market intervention, the erosion of property and civil rights, and an ever-expanding censorship regime. These are root causes of economic fragility and societal division, amplifying vulnerabilities exposed recently by the massive tariffs we pay to our 3 largest trade partners: USA, China, and India.
Canada’s federal government is too big, too expensive, and meddles too much in provincial jurisdiction. Past Liberal and Conservative regimes have overreached as morality police, selectively enforcing laws to push specific ideologies. A Libertarian in Parliament would influence policy to cut the power of the administrative state, reduce bureaucratic bloat, end government debt, and enable citizens to shape their own prosperous futures.
Canada’s self-inflicted barriers, like interprovincial trade restrictions, pipeline bans, and supply management, inflate costs for essentials and trap consumers. Libertarians propose dismantling these barriers in pursuit of principled free trade with the U.S., to leverage Canada’s proximity to the world’s largest economy. The Libertarian approach rejects central economic planning favoring individual liberty and economic freedom.
Canada’s economic hardship stems from Liberal mismanagement — trillion+ in debt, overregulation, and policies that stifling growth. The growing calls for separation in Alberta and Quebec underscore this fracture. Given our natural resources and adjacency to the largest economies on Earth, Canadians should be prosperous, resilient, creative, thriving!
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