Career
In the 2011 Canadian federal election, he lost his seat to Pierre-Luc Dusseault, then a 19-year-old university student and the youngest Member of Parliament ever elected in Canadian history. In the 2012 Quebec election, he unseated the incumbent Premier of Quebec Jean Charest who was also his predecessor for the federal riding. He is an accountants He was a city councillor in Sherbrooke from 1986 to 1998.
* Result compared to Action démocratique
Source: Elections Canada.