Tim Reid (politician)
| Timothy Escott Reid | |
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| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1967–1971 |
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| Preceded by | Louis Hodgson |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Birch |
| Constituency | Scarborough East |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Timothy Escott Reid February 21, 1936 Toronto, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Julyan Fancott (1962–2012; her death) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario |
| Occupation | Civil servant |
Timothy Escott "Tim" Reid (born February 21, 1936), is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Scarborough East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Reid was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He was a star athlete for the University of Toronto in athletics and football, setting the league scoring record (68 points) playing halfback for the football team in 1958, and in 1993 he was inducted into the University's Sports Hall of Fame. He received an M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1960 and was selected as a Rhodes scholar that year to attend Oxford University. He returned to Canada from Oxford in 1962, and completed his Oxford M.Litt thesis studying the policies of James Coyne in 1965. Upon returning to Canada, he was selected by the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the Canadian Football League and played in the infamous 1962 50th Grey Cup game known as the "Fog Bowl". In the fall of 1962, he was hired by the University of Toronto as an instructor in Canadian economic history. In 1963, he became the Assistant to the President of York University and an assistant professor of Economics at York University. During his time as a faculty member at York University, he was editor of the books Contemporary Canada: Readings in Economics (1969) and, with his wife Julyan Reid, Student Power and the Canadian Campus (1969).
In 1965 he ran as the Federal Liberal candidate in the Toronto riding of Danforth in 1965 but finished second behind New Democrat Reid Scott. He then successfully campaigned in the 1967 provincial election winning the riding of Scarborough East. He served as a member of five Standing Committees during the 28th Legislative Assembly of Ontario and as the Critic for Education and University Affairs. In the 1971 general election, Reid lost to PC candidate Margaret Birch by 670 votes.
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