Preceded by New riding Profession Lawyer Residence Toronto, Canada Political party Conservative Role Lawyer | Preceded by Leslie Saunders Name Alan Redway Preceded by David Collenette Cabinet Housing (1989-1991) Succeeded by David Collenette | |
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Born March 11, 1935 (age 89) ( 1935-03-11 ) Party Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Books A Matter of Fairness: Report of the Special Committee on the Review of the Employment Equity Act | ||
Alan Redway, PC, QC (born 11 March 1935) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician.
After a career in municipal politics culminating in the role of mayor of East York, a borough of Metropolitan Toronto, Redway entered federal politics. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for York East, now Don Valley East.
In 1989, he was appointed to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as Minister of State for Housing, including responsibility for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Redway, a Red Tory and supporter of public investment in housing, was forced to resign from Cabinet in 1991 for contravening the Aeronautics Act by joking that his friend was carrying a gun while boarding a plane at Ottawa International Airport. He was defeated in the 1993 Canadian election that reduced the Tories to only two seats in the House of Commons.
Since leaving electoral politics, Redway has been involved in anti-poverty work with the Daily Bread Food Bank as a member of its board of directors from 1996 to 2004. In 2000, as co-chair of the group "Putting Housing Back on the Public Agenda", he addressed the Ontario legislature's Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, lobbying the Progressive Conservative Ontario government of Mike Harris against the selling off of public housing units and for increased investment for supportive housing [1].
Redway practised civil law in Toronto as a partner of the firm Redway & Butler LLP for many years. He retired in December 2010.