John F. Brewin (born September 14, 1936) is a
Canadian
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politician, who served as Member of Parliament for
Victoria
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from 1988 to 1993.
He is a member of the
New Democratic Party
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, as was his father
Andrew Brewin
Francis Andrew Brewin (1907–1983) was a lawyer and Canadian politician and Member of Parliament. He was the grandson of Andrew George Blair a Liberal cabinet minister who was also the Premier of New Brunswick. His son John Brewin also served i ...
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He was married to
Gretchen Brewin
Patricia Gretchen Mann Brewin (born December 23, 1938), known as Gretchen, is a Canadian politician.
Brewin was born in Ottawa, Ontario to mother Marjorie Mann and Walter Mann on December 23, 1938. Gretchen has one sister, Susan Mann. She gra ...
, who served concurrently as mayor of the city of
Victoria
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* Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India
* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital
* Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...
. He married Patricia Thompson in 1997.
Career
Brewin first ran for federal office in 1984 against veteran
PC incumbent
Allan McKinnon. He came in second in that election, losing by 4,108 or 8 per cent. McKinnon did not run again in the 1988 election, and Brewin won the riding easily over PC candidate Geoff Young. In 1993, he lost his attempt at re-election to
Liberal
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David Anderson. He came in third, also behind the
Reform Party candidate.
In 2002, he attracted attention in the media and the party when he correctly predicted that NDP leader
Alexa McDonough
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would step down that year. He also correctly predicted the strength of the then-potential
Jack Layton
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candidacy for the leadership.
Brewin now practises law for the
Toronto
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firm of Ryder Wright Blair and Holmes. With Derek Fudge, he co-authored ''Free Collective Bargaining: Human Right or Canadian Illusion'', published in 2005 by the
National Union of Public and General Employees
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and the United Food and Chemical Workers Union. The study reviewed more than 20 years' erosion of bargaining rights in Canada. He was on the board of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation and is currently a member of the
General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada
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. He lives in Toronto.
References
1936 births
20th-century Anglicans
21st-century Anglicans
Canadian Anglicans
Lawyers in British Columbia
Living people
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
New Democratic Party MPs
Politicians from Toronto
Politicians from Victoria, British Columbia
20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
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