riding predecessor parliament successor birth_place death_date party profession birth_date term_start residence article_title term_end name
greenwood james macdonnell canadian riding redistributed into beaches and york east brighton , england 21 september 1983 ccf ndp lawyer 03 september 1907 1962 toronto andrew brewin
 1979 francis andrew brewin
andrew brewin

francis andrew -lrb- andy -rrb- brewin -lrb- september 3 , 1907 - september 21 , 1983 -rrb- was a lawyer and canadian politician .
brewin was a stalwart in the co-operative commonwealth federation -lrb- ccf -rrb- and ran numerous times at the federal and provincial levels in the 1940 and 1950s .
as a lawyer in the 1940s , he was retained by the co-operative committee on japanese canadians to contest the federal government 's deportation orders affecting thousands of japanese canadians .
led by brewin , the ` japanese canadian reference case ' was heard by the supreme court of canada and later , on appeal , by the judicial committee of the privy council .
brewin was also retained by a committee of japanese canadians who had been detained during world war ii as `` enemy aliens '' in order to try to have their property restored .
he succeeded in persuading the government to call a royal commission to investigate the question .
in 1945 , he was asked by ontario ccf leader ted jolliffe to be co-counsel during the infamous lebel royal commission that was looking into whether or not ontario 's premier at the time was employing a secret political police force .
he was a candidate for the leadership of the at the party 's the 1953 leadership convention , but lost to donald c. macdonald .
brewin was first elected to the canadian house of commons on behalf of the ccf 's successor , the new democratic party .
brewin sat as member of parliament for the toronto riding of greenwood from the 1962 election until his retirement in 1979 .
andrew brewin considered himself a christian socialist , and wrote a number of books and pamphlets on the topic .
in 1965 andrew brewin wrote the book `` stand on guard : the search for a canadian defence policy '' , published by mcclelland & stewart , that explored canada 's military 's changing role in the mid-twentieth century , including its participation in the then new concept of united nations peacekeeping .
