the legislature on September 27, 1993, and declared himself an independent candidate in the 1993 federal election. He finished a distant fourth against Liberal John O'Reilly in the federal Victoria—Haliburton riding, though he did outpoll the official NDP candidate by over a thousand votes. Drainville later realigned himself with the federal NDP, and worked within the Quebec wing. He ran as an official NDP candidate in the 1997 election in the Quebec riding of Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok, but again finished a distant fourth with only 649 votes. Despite losing the election, he continued to speak and write publicly about social issues and electoral reform. Quebec politics Drainville was elected to the City Council of the Ville de Percé for two four year terms representing sector 7 of that municipality from 1994-2002. He also served as President of Seacoast Publications which publishes the only English Newspaper East of Quebec City from 1994 to 1995. In 2004 he founded and became a Trustee of the Gaspé Ecumenical Chaplaincy Foundation established to respond to the social health and spiritual needs of seniors on the Gaspé coast. Church work Ordained in 1982 to the diaconate and 1983 to the priesthood, Drainville served as the priest of Land O’Lakes parish in the Diocese of Ontario and as Executive Director of STOP 103, a non profit multi-service agency responding to the needs of the poor and marginalized in the downtown core of Toronto. He was appointed as associate priest of Christ Church Cathedral and Anglican chaplain of McGill University in Montreal and afterward, became the priest of the parish of Fenelon Falls and Coboconk in the Diocese of Toronto. He left that position and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1990. Work in education Drainville began teaching in the CEGEP system in September 1994 at the College de la Gaspésie et des Îles. Over a 12-year period he taught English, drama, history and humanities. He became the tenured teacher of humanities in 2002. He also served on the executive of the teachers' union the Federation Autonome Collegial 1995-1996. Anglican bishop On October 12, 2007, while he was serving as Archbishop's Missioner in the Diocese of Quebec, Drainville was elected coadjutor bishop of the diocese at a special electoral synod. He was ordained to the episcopate on January 18, 2008. He became diocesan bishop on the retirement of Archbishop Bruce Stavert, in 2009. On May 5,