Scott spent most of his youth living just south of Montreal, and then attended Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough, Ontario, where he received a diploma in Business Administration – Financial Management.  In 1982, he was offered a job as a Customs Inspector in Coutts, Alberta, so he packed up his things and moved across the country and has lived in Coutts ever since.  Scott held a variety of positions, within the Canada Border Services Agency, including Chief of Operations and Criminal Investigator and retired in 2017.  That same year, he was elected as a councilor for the Village of Coutts and is their representative on the MRWCC.