J. Robert Howie, PC (October 2, 1929 – November 25, 2017) was a Canadian politician.
Howie was a native of Fredericton and graduated from the University of New Brunswick.
[2] After the Tories won a minority government in the 1979 federal election, Howie was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of State for Transport in the short-lived government of Prime Minister Joe Clark.
[2] He returned to the Opposition as a result of the 1980 election that defeated the Tory government.
Howie returned to the government side of the House when the Brian Mulroney Tories won the 1984 federal election but was not invited into the Cabinet.