Tim Reid

Timothy Escott 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. Background Reid was born in Toronto, Ontario, a son of Canadian diplomat Escott Reid and his wife Ruth (Herriot). 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). Politics 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 Ontario general 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 early 1968, Reid was instrumental in forming a "Draft Pierre Trudeau for Prime Minister" committee and worked to build support in Ontario for Trudeau's successful run for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. In the 1971 general election, Reid lost to PC candidate Margaret Birch by 670 votes. Later life After his defeat in the 1971 general election, Reid took a position with the OECD in Paris as a Principal Administrator in the Manpower and Social Affairs Directorate.