After Politics
He left politics in 1979 to re-enter business and became a lobbyist. In 1983, he was an organizer of the successful Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign for Brian Mulroney. He served as an adviser to Mulroney while he was Prime Minister of Canada, and was appointed to the Board of Air Canada, then a Crown Corporation. At the time, he was also working for Government Consultants International (GCI), a powerful Ottawa-based international lobbying firm, which had as clients at the time the airline firms Wardair and Nordair, which were competitors of Air Canada. Over accusations of conflict of interest, GCI then gave up Wardair and Nordair as clients. He resigned his Air Canada directorship shortly after GCI took on the Airbus file.
In 1987, he became the chairman of GCI. In the 1990s, he regained prominence through his alleged role in the Airbus affair.
On July 10, 2005, Moores lost his battle with liver cancer in Perth, Ontario.
In November 2007, in the wake of new revelations about the Airbus affair by Karlheinz Schreiber, The Globe and Mail published evidence indicating that Moores had written a letter about the Airbus deal to Franz Josef Strauss, chairman of Airbus Industrie. Until his death Moores denied having any involvement in the affair.
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