Career
To promote his campaign, he ran as a candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada at the 1983 leadership convention. Fraser"s campaign had no visible followers. Granted the same nationally televised 25 minutes as the other candidates for his convention address, Fraser engaged in a bizarre speech that likened Confederation to a blood transfusion to Quebec.
Lise Bissonnette commented that if the speech had been heard on Radio-Canada, it would have set the Tories" Quebec efforts back 10 years.
He finished last, with five votes.
