 In 1976, he was appointed Executive Secretary in the Executive Council of Quebec premier René Lévesque.He wrote "Autant de façons d'être Québécois" ("So many ways to be Québécois"), and headed up the public hearings into the future of the Anglophone community of the Lower North Shore producing "La Basse-Cote Nord- perspectives et développement".He was appointed Secretary to the Commission of Inquiry on the mining disaster of Belmoral in northern Quebec in 1979.