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A Chartered Accountant and Lawyer by training, Lewis entered the Canadian House Of Commons when he won the Seat of Simcoe North , Ontario as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 Federal Election . In the short-lived government of Prime Minister Joe Clark , he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister Of Supply And Service . Re-elected in the 1980 Federal Election that returned the Liberals to power, Lewis moved to the Opposition Benches , serving first as Deputy House Leader from 1981 to February 1983 , and then as Official Opposition House Leader until September 1983. With the victory of the Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney in the 1984 General Election , Lewis again became a parliamentary secretary. In 1987 , he entered the Cabinet as both Minister Of State to the Government House Leader and Minister of State (Treasury Board). At the end of 1988 , he became Acting President Of The Treasury Board , and, a month later in January 1989 , he was named Minister Of Justice . He also served as Government House Leader from April 1989 to February 1990 . In April 1990 , Lewis was moved from Justice to the position of Minister Of Transport . In 1991 , he was moved again, this time to the position of Solicitor General Of Canada . When Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as Progressive Conservative leader and prime minister in June 1993 , she kept Lewis in Cabinet as Solicitor General, and also named him Government House Leader. Both Lewis and the Campbell government were defeated in the fall 1993 General Election . Following his political defeat, he returned to his law practice. Lewis remained a supporter of the Progressive Conservatives through the 1990s. However, in 2000 , he supported Tom Long 's candidacy to lead the new Canadian Alliance , which was an attempt to merge the PC Party with the Reform Party Of Canada . In July 2000, however, he insisted to reporters that he was a loyal supporter of Joe Clark's renewed leadership of the Progressive Conservative party. EXTERNAL LINKS
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