Smith, Stuart Lyon

Person

Smith, Stuart Lyon

1938-

Stuart Lyon Smith, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) was born in 1938 at Montreal. He was educated as a psychiatrist at McGill University and was subsequently on the faculty of McMaster University Medical School, and Director of In-Patient Psychiatric Services, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton.
Dr. Smith entered public life as executive assistant to the Hon. Alan McNaughton, then Speaker of the House of Commons. He was elected as Liberal candidate for the riding of Hamilton-Wentworth in the Ontario Legislature in 1975 and re-elected in 1977 and 1981. He was chosen leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1976 and served in that role and as leader of the official opposition until 1981. In 1981, he resigned the Hamilton-Wentworth seat when he was appointed Chairman of the Science Council of Canada, a position he held until 1987.
A year after leaving the Council, he founded RockCliffe Research and Technology Inc., a firm which introduced public-private partnerships into government laboratories. From 1995 to 2002, he was chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
In 1994, Smith proposed the creation of a private-sector water company in the City of Hamilton, and was named as the founding president of the Philip Utilities Management Corporation (PUMC). More recently, Smith has served as Chairman of the Board of Esna Tech in Richmond Hill. and as chair of the board for Humber College in Toronto. From 2012-2013, Smith was appointed commissioner of the Intercounty Baseball League, a semi-pro baseball league in Ontario.

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