 He was elected in the 2006 federal election in a rematch against Boivin, becoming the first Bloc MP elected in the National Capital Region.He was also the third Bloc MP ever elected in the entire Outaouais region, after Maurice Dumas and Mario Laframboise.Nadeau's wife, Edith Gendron, is the head of a Quebec separatist group called "Le Quebec, Un Pays".