[2] He outlined his organization's approach to biosecurity in late 2005, during the period of an avian flu outbreak in North America.
[4] For the 2007 campaign, he stood with Premier Jean Charest to present the Liberal Party's agriculture platform.
[10] He is not to be confused with the Montreal businessperson Daniel Fournier, who has run for the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative candidate.
[11] He endorsed Premier Jean Charest's health reforms and called for English-language training in francophone schools from the earliest grades.
[12] On election day, he finished third against PQ incumbent Sylvain Simard amid a provincial swing away from the Liberals.