 She remained in parliament until her defeat in the 1988 election by the Liberal candidate, future Speaker Peter Milliken.At the 1976 PC leadership convention, she became the third woman to mount a serious campaign for the leadership of one Canada's major parties.In this, she had been preceded by Rosemary Brown who came in second in her 1975 bid for the leadership of the New Democratic Party, and by Mary Walker-Sawka, who won two votes at the PC leadership convention in 1967.