Editing Gerry Phillips (section)

===In opposition===
The Liberals were defeated by the NDP in the [[1990 Ontario general election|provincial election of 1990]], although Phillips was re-elected without difficulty in his own riding. Tory Keith MacNab finished second.<ref name="1990 results">{{cite news |title=Ontario election: Riding-by-riding voting results |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 7, 1990 |page=A12}}</ref>  In opposition, he held critic portfolios in Health, Finance and Native Affairs. In 1992, he supported [[Lyn McLeod]]'s successful campaign to become party leader.

The [[1995 Ontario general election|1995 provincial election]] was won by the Progressive Conservatives, and Phillips only narrowly won re-election in Agincourt, defeating Keith MacNab by about 2,000 votes.<ref name="1995 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1995_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=36&rec=0&district=scarborough-agincourt&flag=E&layout=G |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 8, 1995}}</ref>  Many suspected that Phillips would run for the party's leadership when [[Lyn McLeod]] resigned in 1996, but he declined and supported [[Gerard Kennedy]], who lost to Dalton McGuinty on the final ballot. Phillips was appointed as the party's Deputy Leader in 1998.

He was re-elected in 1999 by nearly 3,000 votes defeating Tory MPP [[Jim Brown (Ontario politician)|Jim Brown]] whose own nearby riding of [[Scarborough West (provincial electoral district)|Scarborough West]] was abolished in the lead-up to the election.<ref name="1999 results">{{cite web |url=http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=scarborough-agincourt&flag=E&layout=G |title=Summary of Valid Ballots by Candidate |publisher=Elections Ontario |date=June 3, 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092648/http://results.elections.on.ca/results/1999_results/valid_votes.jsp?e_code=37&rec=0&district=Scarborough-Agincourt&flag=E&layout=G |archive-date=April 2, 2015 }}</ref> The Progressive Conservatives won re-election across the province, and Phillips remained in opposition serving in critic roles such as Native Affairs. Phillips helped lead the fight for a public inquiry into the 1995 shooting death of protester [[Dudley George]] by members of the [[Ontario Provincial Police]].