minister Grossman became renowned throughout North America and Europe for his innovative and progressive penal reforms. His leadership was recognized with numerous citations, and in 1971 the University of Ottawa bestowed upon him with an honorary doctorate in Criminology. In 1971, Grossman was appointed by Robarts successor, Bill Davis. as Minister of Trade and Development, with additional responsibility for Housing. He led the first trade mission from the Western world to China. Grossman became Minister of Revenue in 1972 and continued his responsibility for housing. He introduced Ontario's tax credit program to assist the elderly and low income families and eliminated much of the red tape that generally plagues a tax-collecting Ministry. In 1974, Grossman became the Provincial Secretary for Resources Development with overall policy responsibility for seven ministries. Outside politics Grossman fought to help the Hungarian freedom fighters and their Canadian relatives; the citizens of Prague who cried for freedom during the Russian invasion; and, as President of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Service, he assisted homeless persons. Cabinet posts Fire rescue While Grossman was campaigning for reelection in 1967, he saw a man whose clothes were on fire. The man had been working on his car and the clothes were greasy. He was saved when Grossman and a police constable used their coats to smother the flames. After politics After retiring from public life in 1975, Allan Grossman served as chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (Canada) until 1984 and he worked on his son's campaigns for the Ontario PC leadership in 1985 and afterwards served as a volunteer advisor to Larry and the Ontario Tory caucus. In 1985, a biography was published, Unlikely Tory: The Life and Politics of Allan Grossman by Peter Oliver . Death Grossman died on September 1, 1991 of cancer in Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Center; he was 80 years old. References Notes Citations External links 1910 births 1991 deaths Canadian people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish Canadian politicians Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Politicians from Toronto Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs