 Dorin left federal politics after being defeated in the 1993 federal election by Anne McLellan of the Liberal Party.However, he spent election day in the hospital, after being diagnosed with nervous exhaustion due to the stress of the campaign.In the 1997 Canadian federal election, he was active as a mentor to the party's candidates in Alberta, alongside former caucus colleagues such as Don Mazankowski, Scott Thorkelson and Jim Hawkes, but did not stand for reelection.