Susan Fish

Who is Susan Fish?

Susan Fish is a former Canadian politician. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.

Fish was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and raised in New York City. She was educated at St. Lawrence College and New York University. She moved to Toronto as an adult and worked on the staff of David Crombie, the pro-reform Mayor of Toronto. Fish was elected to Toronto City Council as a reform alderman in 1976, and served until 1981.

Like Crombie, she was a Red Tory. She ran for Bill Davis' Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1981 Ontario election and was elected as Member of Provincial Parliament for the St. George constituency in downtown Toronto. Shortly after her election, she participated in a rally at Queen's Park to support the inclusion of sexual identity in the Ontario Human Rights Code.

On July 6, 1983, she was promoted to the Davis cabinet as Minister of Citizenship and Culture. She supported her friend Larry Grossman in his unsuccessful bid to succeed Davis in 1985, and was dropped from Cabinet on February 8 of that year after right-winger Frank Miller was elected Tory leader in the January 1985 leadership convention.