Served as Town Councillor for Rayside-Balfour from 1997 to 2000
•Director of the Community Health Care Centre
•Vice President of Administration of the Caisse Populaire Vermillion
•Co-founder of the Rayside-Balfour Community Action Network
•Past Vice Chair of the Rayside-Balfour Youth Action Network in which he served 10 years
•Secretary of the Family Hockey Tournament Fund Raising Committee
•Chaired the Citizens' Police Advisory Committee
•Member of the Greater City of Sudbury Committee of Adjustment
•Past Director of Rayside-Balfour Minor Hockey and the Ontario National Training Centre
•Organized successful election campaigns for Shelley Martel, Floyd Laughren, Elie Martel and Blaine Morin
•Worked for INCO from 1968 to 2003; retired as a machinist
•For four years chaired the Political Action committee of USWA local 6500
•Lives with Marie-Claire, his wife of 31 years — they have two adult children
•NDP candidate in the 2004 and 2006 federal election campaigns.