He represented the riding of Surrey-White Rock for the Liberal Party as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1997 federal election.
At times, he was in agreement, such as when both urged the federal government to make tree spiking a criminal offense.
[4] He was also a proponent of the idea of White Rock's annexing parts of the neighbouring municipality of Surrey south of 40th Avenue.
[6] When NDP MLA's Ujjal Dosanjh and Barry Jones objected to the term, speaker Joan Sawicki asked Hurd to withdraw his words.
[17] On March 24, 1997, he was acclaimed as the candidate for that riding and announced that he would remain MLA until required to resign by law.
After the Vancouver Sun reported on Hurd's donations, the BC Liberal Party said that it would return the money.