Ronald Alexander Stewart
| Ronald Stewart | |
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In office 9 October 1979 – 1 October 1988 |
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| Member of Parliament for Simcoe South electoral district | |
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| Born |
13 April 1927 Beeton, Ontario |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Profession | farmer |
Ronald Alexander Stewart (born 13 April 1927 in Beeton, Ontario) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a wholesale distributor by career.
Stewart was first elected to represent the district of Simcoe South electoral district in the 1979 federal election. He served as a backbencher in the short-lived government of Joe Clark, serving as a government member on a number of committees. He was re-elected in 1980 and, in 1983, was made critic for small business by Brian Mulroney.
Re-elected to a third term in 1984 federal elections, Stewart was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and, following a 1986 cabinet shuffle, was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply and Services until his retirement from politics in 1988.
Stewart was a socially-conservative member of the PC caucus, espousing religious and traditionalist viewpoints in House of Commons debates. During a 1986 debate regarding Burnaby MP Svend Robinson's motion to allow gay and lesbian Canadians to serve in the RCMP and Armed Forces, Stewart vigorously opposed the motion, saying "Homosexuality is anti-biological. It is anti-medical, anti-biblical...It is anti-family and it is anti-social." Stewart followed these comments with a lengthy speech wherein he claimed gay and lesbian people were more prone to disease, tainting the nation's blood supply, and "slavishly [devoting] themselves to self-aggrandizement."
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