Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

Amid a world recession and the prospect of having to implement the unpopular wage and price controls Turner surprisingly resigned his position in 1975. Turner discovered late in the campaign that the Liberals' electoral hopes were poor in their traditional stronghold of Quebec. They were decimated in Quebec falling to 17 seats all but four in and around Montreal.

Amid a world recession and the prospect of having to implement the unpopular wage and price controls Turner surprisingly resigned his position in 1975. Turner stayed on as Liberal leader and headed the Official Opposition for the next six years leading his party to a modest recovery in the 1988 campaign resigning from politics in 1990.