 Moonlighting for "The Hockey News" under the pseudonym "Mike Gamble", he wrote a profile of 16-year-old junior hockey player Wayne Gretzky, and may have been the first person to use the phrase "The Great Gretzky".Proctor entered electoral politics when he won a seat in the 1997 federal election representing the Saskatchewan riding of Palliser.He was re-elected in the 2000 election and served as NDP caucus chair from 2000 until he lost his seat in the 2004 federal election by 124 votes.