Federal Politics
Paradis's local organization supported Progressive Conservative incumbent Gabrielle Bertrand in the 1988 federal election. He later aligned with the federal Liberal Party and was rumoured as a candidate for a 1995 by-election in Brome—Missisquoi (the federal electoral district of the same name). After deciding not to run, he supported his brother Denis Paradis for the position. Denis Paradis won the election and was later a cabinet minister in the governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.
Read more about this topic: Pierre Paradis
Famous quotes containing the words federal and/or politics:
“Daniel as a lad bought a handkerchief on which the Federal Constitution was printed; it is said that at intervals while working in the meadows around this house, he would retire to the shade of the elms and study the Constitution from his handkerchief.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)