Career
Martel has a Bachelor"s Degree in administration. He was selected as both secretary-treasurer and director general of the Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality (Medical Research Council) in 1994, and continues to hold the first position as of 2009. He has also been the responsable administratif for the Centre local de développement (CLD) in Nicolet-Yamaska since 1998.
Between 1999 and 2003, he was president of l’Association des directeurs généraux des Medical Research Council du Québec.
He has also taken part in a local campaign against cannabis. Martel ran as a Parti Québécois candidate in Nicolet-Yamaska in the 2007 election, finishing second with 7,455 votes (2832%) against Action démocratique du Québec candidate Éric Dorion.
He resigned as president of the local Parti Québécois association in April 2008, arguing that his civic duties were inconsistent with partisan political activity.
