 A member of the Progressive Conservative Party since 1985, he first ran for office in the 1995 but was defeated.He served from then until the next election as a Francophone organizer for the PC Party and ran again in 1999 when he was successful becoming the member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Lamèque-Shippagan-Miscou.He was re-elected in 2003, 2006 and 2010.