He worked for thirty-nine years at Ontario Hydro, in the fields of operations, customer service, property and marketing.
He was also a beef farmer, and served for a time as reeve of Montague Township and a member of the Lanark County council.
[2] This election was won by the Ontario New Democratic Party, and Jordan sat on the opposition benches for the next five years.
The PC party won the 1995 provincial election, in which Jordan defeated his Liberal opponent by more than 10,000 votes.
Jordan ran against veteran Liberal MPP Sean Conway in the new riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke in the 1999 provincial election, and lost by almost 6,000 votes.