The Honourable Anthony Chisholm (Tony) Abbott (born November 26 1930) is a former Canadian politician.
Abbott, a lawyer by profession, was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Mississauga, Ontario in the 1974 federal election. In 1976 he was appointed to the Cabinet of Pierre Trudeau as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs . In 1977 he became Minister of State for Small Business and from 1978 until the defeat of the Trudeau government in 1979 he was Minister of National Revenue.
Abbott lost his seat in the 1979 election. He attempted to return to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in the 1988 federal election running in Eglinton—Lawrence but was unsuccessful.
After his defeat Abbott returned to the private sector serving as president of the Retail Council of Canada. From 1980 until 1988 he was based in London (UK) as the business advisor and legal counsel at the branch office of a major Canadian law firm. Abbott subsequently moved to Vancouver Island following his 1988 electoral defeat and is in legal practice with the MacIsaac Group and is also a tourism accomodation operator on the island.
