Federal Politics
Deans moved to federal politics and won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons during the 1980 federal election representing Hamilton Mountain.
He served as House Leader for the New Democratic Party during the illness of Stanley Knowles, and became official House Leader following the 1984 federal election.
In the fall of 1986, he surprised colleagues by accepting a job from Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as an administrator in the public service sector.
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