The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ran a full slate of 295 candidates in the 1988 federal election, and won 169 seats for a second consecutive majority governments.
[1] He supported official bilingualism, and described the anti-French Confederation of Regions Party as having tapped into "an undercurrent" he had not realized existed.
He opposed Sudbury's move to market value assessment for property taxes in 1986, following significant rate increases throughout his ward.
[12] Fera resigned his position in November 2001, in protest against the Harris government's efforts to restructure the province's Community Care Access Centres (the government had introduced legislation giving the province the right to appoint boards of directors and chief administrative officers).
[15] Just before the board's dissolution, Fera sharply criticized the Harris government for firing its executive director, Bob Knight.