Timothy Escott Reid (born February 21, 1936), is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Scarborough East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1971.
Upon returning to Canada, he was selected by the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the Canadian Football League and played in the infamous 1962 50th Grey Cup game known as the "Fog Bowl".
During his time as a faculty member at York University, he was editor of the books Contemporary Canada: Readings in Economics (1969) and, with his wife Julyan Reid, Student Power and the Canadian Campus (1969).
[citation needed] From 1989 to 1998, Reid was the president of the 170,000-member Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada's largest and most representative national business association.
In this position, he played a role in the public debate over the federal budget deficit, and the potential economic impact of the 1995 Quebec referendum on separation.