[6] As of the 1991 election, he was separated from his wife Connie, and he was living with regional councillor Fiona Faucher.
[6] In 1984, he ran for the nomination of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in that year's federal election in the riding of Nepean—Carleton.
He won just 80 votes before being eliminated after the second ballot, losing to the eventual winner Bill Tupper.
[7] He ran against Tupper again for the Tory nomination in the 1988 Canadian federal election in the new riding of Nepean, but lost again, 717 votes to 427.
[8] Reid ran for the nomination again in the 1993 Canadian federal election, but lost to Donna Hicks by just two votes on the second ballot.