Career
Bailey ran for the leadership of the Saskatchewan Personal Computer Party in 1973, placing second to Dick Collver. Bailey was a school board trustee in the Borderland School Division (since consolidated into the Prairie South School Division) from 1984 to 1993. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1997, representing the riding of Souris—Moose Mountain for the Reform Party of Canada and its successor, the Canadian Alliance, until 2004.
He served as the Veterans Affairs critic for the Alliance.
He did not seek re-election in the 2004 election. Bailey has been an educational administrator, a farmer, and a teacher.
