Member of The Legislature
Paradis was elected to the National Assembly in a by-election held shortly after the 1980 referendum. He was re-elected in the 1981 general election. The Parti Québécois was in government during this period, and Paradis sat as a member of the official opposition.
Paradis was appointed as his party's labour critic in October 1982. He increased his profile in early 1983 by asking rigorous questions of Parti Québécois members during a televised hearing into the role played by Quebec Premier René Lévesque 's office in approving a contentious out-of-court settlement.
There were rumours that Paradis would run for the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1984 Canadian federal election, although these ultimately came to nothing.
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