In 2002, Hume contributed $362.26 to the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign of Jim Flaherty.
[4] Hume is generally considered to be a "red Tory",[3] who "votes in favour of social spending, but talks convincingly about fiscal responsibility.
Hume is currently the Chair of the City of Ottawa's Planning Committee, a position he has held since 2003.
[3] In 2015, Hume partnered with former Minto vice-president, Jack Stirling, in a "strategic partnership to pursue development projects and to advise both the private and public sector."
Stirling, the old City of Nepean’s last planning commissioner before amalgamation, is well-known as another former local bureaucrat who jumped the fence in 2001 to work for Minto as vice-president of development,[7] using his experience to stickhandle development proposals through the city’s approvals process.