During World War II he served domestically, and in Europe, Middle East, India and Burma, and retired from the military in the early 1960s.
[1] He served as Canadian representative on several NATO committees from 1957, and worked as a senior staff officer with the Army, and set up the United Nations Emergency Fun post in Gaza in 1957.
An opponent of party politics in municipal elections, he ran on a platform of getting education and civic spokesmen discussing mutual interests, reducing local councils without sacrificing ward representation and planning for rapid transit.
At the time of the 1972 election, he was also a director of the local Children's Aid Society, and a trustee at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.
In the election, he ran on a platform of starting up discussions with the federal government on the issue of "thorny grants in lieu of taxes".
Ottawa's Board of Control was abolished in 1980, and Law announced his retirement from politics in August of that year, citing that he felt it was time for "someone younger with fresh ideas to move into his council seat".