Member of The Legislative Assembly
Reid was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1990 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Richard Kozak. The Progressive Conservative Party won a majority government in this election, and Reid served as his party's critic for Transportation and the Workers Compensation Board. In the latter capacity, he called for the WCB to adopt universal coverage. He later spoke against a proposed merger of Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, and strongly opposed the federal government's decision to privatize Canadian National.
Reid was re-elected without difficulty in the 1995 election, winning every poll in the Transcona division. The Progressive Conservatives were re-elected to another majority government, and Reid served as his party's critic for Transportation and Labour.
After eleven years in opposition, the New Democratic Party was returned to government in the 1999 provincial election. Reid was easily re-elected in Transcona, and became a backbench supporter of Gary Doer's administration. He led a task force into Manitoba's system of issuing drivers licenses, and chaired a series of public meetings into the status of the province's roads, rails and runways. Re-elected again in 2003, he chaired the committees that selected a new ombudsman and a new Auditor General for Manitoba.
In 2005, Reid and fellow NDP MLA Bidhu Jha broke ranks with the Doer government and spoke against plans to create a new hog processing plant in their section of Winnipeg. After extensive criticism, the government withdrew its support for the project in 2007.
Reid was returned for a fifth time in the 2007 election, in which the NDP were re-elected to a third consecutive majority government. He now chairs the 2020 Manitoba Transportation Task Force, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation.
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