Although he was never elected to a seat in the Canadian House of Commons, he was a prominent and influential politician and a popular commentator for decades.
Camp soon enrolled in undergraduate studies at Acadia University, but his time there was interrupted by enlistment in the Canadian Army during the Second World War.
After the decision was made to have a leadership convention in 1967, Camp left the presidency of the party and briefly considered campaigning for leadership of the party, but when Robert Stanfield decided to run, Camp lent his support to Stanfield's campaign.
He also wrote regular columns for the Toronto Sun and the Saint John Telegraph-Journal newspapers for many years.
Camp underwent a heart transplant in 1993, the oldest person in Canada to do so at the time,[2] and he continued to write and give political commentary from his home in Jemseg, New Brunswick.