Allan F Leach was a former transportation executive and politician in Ontario, Canada.
17 Facts About Al Leach
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Al Leach was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999 and a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.
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Al Leach later moved to GO Transit and was its managing director from 1977 to 1987.
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Al Leach was hired as Chief General Manager of the Toronto Transit Commission in 1987 and served in that position until he resigned in early 1995 to seek political office.
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Al Leach was named North American Transit Manager of the year in 1994 by the American Transit Association.
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Al Leach was appointed as the Harris government's Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing on June 26,1995, and held this position until the 1999 provincial election.
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In that capacity, Al Leach presided over a number of controversial issues, including amalgamating the City of Toronto with five of its suburbs, ending rent control, and cutting provincial grants to the metropolitan region.
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Al Leach presided over market value reassessment for private property in Downtown Toronto.
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Sewell's participation was believed to help Al Leach be re-elected by splitting the vote.
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However, Al Leach had always stated that he intended to retire from politics at 65, after a single term, which he followed.
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In 2000 Al Leach joined the firm of SNC-Lavalin, Canada's largest engineering and construction company and was a member of the board of directors.
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Al Leach represented SNC-Lavalin on the Hwy 407 Board of Directors.
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Al Leach was not reappointed to the Go Transit Board by the new Liberal Party government.
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Al Leach has served as a director of the Canadian Urban Transit Association, the American Public Transit Association, the Toronto Police Crime Stoppers, and the United Way Campaign and as a member of the St Michael's Hospital Governor's Council.
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In February 2013, Al Leach moved from Toronto to Rye, New York.
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Al Leach applied for and received a green card and spent the last years of his life as a permanent resident of the United States.
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Al Leach passed away in October of 2024 after living with dementia.