[2] Cafik's 1972 re-election, defeating former Diefenbaker era minister Frank Charles McGee was particularly notable.
He was initially reported to have lost his riding, yielding a 108-seat tie between the Stanfield Progressive Conservatives and the Trudeau Liberals.
[3] Subsequent re-count confirmed Cafik's victory over McGee by 4 votes, giving the Liberals a two-seat lead in the minority parliament.
He attempted to move to provincial politics, running in 1973 for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.
He lost his seat in the House in the 1979 election that defeated the Trudeau government and returned to private life.