He served as a Progressive Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985, and was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller.
[2] His mother was the daughter of George Reesor, a descendant of one of the German families that originally settled Markham, Ontario, in 1794.
He also served on the Metro Toronto Council during this period, and was a board member of St. Matthew the Apostle Anglican Church in 1971.
Williams was strongly anti-abortion, and had previously opposed granting any police protection to Henry Morgentaler's abortion clinic in Toronto.
[9] In 2005, veteran legislators Sean Conway and Bob Runciman both named Williams as the most boring speaker they had encountered in the course of their careers.