Peter Reilly (26 November 1933 – 15 March 1977) was a Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada.
He was a broadcaster and journalist by career and helped launch both W5 on the CTV Television Network and The Fifth Estate on CBC.
Peter Reilly was Director of News and Public Affairs at CTV News and was the first executive producer and host of public affairs show W5 in 1966 until he called a press conference a few weeks into the show's first season announcing that he was resigning from the network due to interference from CTV board chair and principal shareholder John W. H.
[3] Following his departure from Parliament, Reilly returned to broadcasting with CBC Television as one of the founding reporters of The Fifth Estate.
One of his reports was broadcast on 15 March 1977, the same day that he died at his Toronto residence from an apparent case of heart failure.