Bill Law

Politics Law was elected in the 1969 Ottawa municipal election as the alderman for Carleton Ward, in the city's west end. As the top-vote getting in the two-seat ward, he also won a seat on Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council. An opponent of party politics in municipal elections, he ran on a platform of getting education and civic spokesmen discussing mutual interests, reducing local councils without sacrificing ward representation and planning for rapid transit.

Law ran for re-elected in Carleton Ward in the 1972 Ottawa municipal election on a platform of property tax concessions for elderly residents on limited incomes, establishing a five-year plan to clean up the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers, and improving recreational facilities. At the time of the 1972 election, he was also a director of the local Children's Aid Society, and a trustee at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.

Law ran for a seat on the Ottawa Board of Control in the 1974 Ottawa municipal election. At the time, he was a part-time sessional lecturer at Algonquin College, teaching in early childhood development. In the election, he topped the poll in the city six-seat West zone, winning over 10,000 votes.

Concerned about the 'political squabbling' at city hall, and its 'inability to make decisions', Law ran for a seat on Ottawa's Board of Control once again in the 1978 Ottawa municipal election. In the 1978 election, he was elected to the Board of Control once again, placing third in the race for the four-seat board.

Ottawa's Board of Control was abolished in 1980, and Law announced his retirement from politics in August of that year, citing that he felt it was time for "someone younger with fresh ideas to move into his council seat". He changed his mind however, and ran for a seat as a Trustee for the Ottawa Board of Education in the 1980 Ottawa municipal election. In the 1980 election, he once again topped the poll in the city's six-seat Western Zone. He was re-elected in 1982, and retired from the board in 1985.

Death He died at the Perley Veterans Health Centre in Ottawa in 2004.