Alan Redway, PC KC (March 11, 1935 – January 4, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer and 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 House of Commons of Canada 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.
After leaving electoral politics, Redway was 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.
Redway died on January 4, 2024, at the age of 88.[2]
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t
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1993 Canadian federal election: Don Valley East
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Liberal
David Collenette
21,511
54.1
+16.2
Progressive Conservative
Alan Redway
9,279
23.3
-21.4
Reform
Gordon E. Honsey
6,877
17.3
New Democratic
Janice Waud Loper
1,538
3.9
-11.2
Libertarian
Mark Meschino
238
0.6
-0.7
Natural Law
Fred Fredeen
205
0.5
Marxist–Leninist
Roger Carter
90
0.2
Abolitionist
Michael Mazerolle
22
0.1
Total valid votes
39,760
100.0
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1988 Canadian federal election: Don Valley East
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Progressive Conservative
Alan Redway
18,719
44.7
-9.7
Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi
15,881
37.9
+3.9
New Democratic
Brant Loper
6,310
15.1
+4.4
Libertarian
Mark Meschino
538
1.3
+0.6
Independent
David Smith
271
0.6
Communist
Maria Kontopidis
155
0.4
Total valid votes
41,874
100.0
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1984 Canadian federal election: York East
Party
Candidate
Votes
Progressive Conservative
Alan Redway
21,978
Liberal
David Collenette
16,519
New Democratic Party
Bill Gorelle
7,581
Libertarian
Chris Sorensen
243
Communist
Stathis Stathpoulos
171
^Ontario Budget 2000: Put Housing Back on the Public Agenda
^"Obituary: Alan Redway, former Mayor of East York and MP for York East, remembered for his service to community". Beach Metro Community News. January 10, 2024. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
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