Graydon Smith M.P.P.

Graydon Smith serves as Ontario’s Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry and the Member of Provincial Parliament for Parry Sound-Muskoka.

He was first elected as Mayor of Bracebridge in 2010 and served as the Deputy Chair of the District Municipality of Muskoka. He is recognized for his leadership during devastating floods in 2013 and 2019, and throughout the pandemic as the President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO).

Graydon is the past President of the Ontario Small Urban Municipalities (OSUM) and also served as a District Councillor for Muskoka and Town Councillor for Bracebridge from 2006 to 2010.

In addition, Graydon spent over a decade with the Kinsmen Club of Bracebridge, where he served as President and Project Chair for a variety of community-focused events. In 2019, he was selected as the Bracebridge Rotary Club’s “Citizen of the Year” and made an honorary Paul Harris Fellow.

Graydon was also the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013.