 For many years, Diotte was president of the Edmonton chapter of the Canadian Association of Journalists and a national director of the organization.He resigned those positions to campaign for a city council seat in the 2010 Edmonton municipal election.On November 18, 2004, seven members of the Edmonton Police Service targeted Diotte along with then-police commission chairman Martin Ignasiak in a controversial undercover drunk-driving operation at an Edmonton bar, the Overtime Broiler & Taproom.