 During that time the AWRC conducted public hearings on the South Saskatchewan River Basin Planning Program, which was the preamble to the development of the Water Act (proclaimed in 1999).In the 1986 general election he won a straight fight against New Democrat candidate Lavera Creasy whom he had faced in 1982.Kroeger died in office a year later from complications of lymphoma, pneuomonia, and a blood infection.