David Lewis worked for years for the CCF, but he came into his own when it became the New Democratic Party. Campaigning against "corporate welfare bums" in 1972, David Lewis led the NDP to hold the balance of power in the resulting Liberal minority government. David Lewis and the NDP supported the introduction of a national affordable housing strategy, a new Elections Expenses Act, pension indexing, and the creation of Petro-Canada and the Foreign Investment Review Agency.
June 23, 1909 in Swislocz, Poland. In 1921 David Lewis came with his family to Montreal, Quebec.
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