Out of Parliament
In 1994, Rodriguez called for provincial NDP cabinet minister Shelley Martel to resign for violating the privacy rights of an Ottawa consultant. He endorsed Svend Robinson's bid for the federal NDP leadership the following year, after Audrey McLaughlin's resignation. Robinson led on the first ballot of the party's leadership convention, but gave his support to rival candidate Alexa McDonough when he realized that he did not have enough support to win.
Rodriguez later became principal of St. David Catholic School in the Sudbury area, and was strongly critical of his forced retirement in 2005. "I'm not ready to retire", he said, "and I do resent being discriminated against because of my age". After leaving this position, he was hired as a remunerator with Statistics Canada. He also volunteered for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, and received a commemorative medal for the Queen's jubilee in 2003. In 2005, he praised former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien for his role in supporting Canada in the 1995 Quebec referendum.
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