Member of Parliament
A strong Tory supporter, St. Germain was parachuted as a Progressive Conservative into the Mission-Port Moody riding for the byelection there in 1983. St. Germain was elected to as a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons at a by-election held on the same day in 1983 that Brian Mulroney was elected.
St. Germain was Member of Parliament for the now defunct riding of Mission—Port Moody from then until 1988. In March 1988, St. Germain joined the Canadian Cabinet (the first Métis to do so) as Minister of Transport (Canada) and was later appointed as Minister of Forestry. He was also the political minister for BC at this time.
After his riding's boundaries were changed to create the new riding of Mission-Coquitlam, St. Germain was defeated in the 1988 general election by Joy Langan. From 1989 to 1995, he was the President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
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