 He continued to support the Lougheed government during his last term in the legislature, planned to cross the floor to join the Progressive Conservatives on the last day before the legislature was dissolved in 1979, and then run as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 provincial election.Early in 1979, Taylor was approached to run for the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1979 federal election in Bow River, which included Drumheller.He challenged incumbent Tory MP Stanley Schumacher for the PC nomination—the real contest in this strongly conservative riding.