Brian Bigger

Brian Bigger is a Canadian politician who served as the mayor of Greater Sudbury from 2014 to 2022. He was elected in the city's 2014 municipal election. Prior to serving as mayor, Bigger served as the first Auditor General for the city.

Background Born and raised in Sudbury, Bigger attended high school at St. Charles College, and studied marketing at Cambrian College and commerce at Laurentian University. until he was appointed to a three-year term as the city of Greater Sudbury's auditor general in 2009.

As auditor general, he identified significant waste in the city's management of road maintenance, including scheduling inefficiencies and overbilling by outside contractors, during the meetings, they took the unusual step of deciding to hire an outside auditor to audit Bigger's office. Bigger's contract was renewed, but several citizens of the city filed a complaint with the Ontario Ombudsman about the closed-door meetings.

Bigger's campaign for mayor was based on a platform of openness, transparency and accountability. His campaign promises included identifying budget savings in order to deliver a zero property tax increase in his first year as mayor,

On election day, Bigger garnered 46 per cent of the vote.

In October 2022, he withdrew from the 2022 Greater Sudbury municipal election several weeks after having registered as a candidate, citing the need to spend more time with his family due to the declining health of his mother.