Career
She was also identified as the Personal Computer "family critic."
In 1999, Street-Jacques joined MPs Svend Robinson (NDP) and Réal Ménard (Bloc), both openly gay, and Toronto Liberal Member of Parliament Bill Graham, in a "pink caucus" across party lines. The group advocated that the legal definition of spouse include same-sex couples. The social conservative Campaign Life Coalition decried Saint-Jacques as "a married mother of one, who says she isn"t a lesbian but who supports the gay agenda."
Street-Jacques spoke in Parliament in favour of medical marijuana rights.
On September 12, 2000, with an election increasingly close, Street-Jacques, with fellow Tory Member of Parliament David Price and independent, formerly Tory Member of Parliament André Harvey, joined the Liberal Party of Canada and the Liberal caucus.
In the 2000 election, Street-Jacques retained her Shefford seat as a Liberal. She served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development in the government of prime minister Jean Chrétien from January 13 until December 11, 2003, and as Deputy Government Whip under Chrétien"s successor Paul Martin from February 2, 2004, until she left office.
In the 2004 federal election, she lost her seat to Robert Vincent of the Bloc Québécois. She ran again in the 2006 federal election, placing third place behind Vincent and the Conservative candidate Jean Lambert.
She received 23.4% of all votes cast.
