[4] He was re-elected in the 2006 Ottawa election with 47% of the vote to his closest, Bruce McConville, 45%, the narrowest margin of victory of any of the incumbent councillors.
City Council has passed Bédard's motion [5] on having an interim moratorium on creating any more special needs housing in Rideau-Vanier until zoning review is completed.
[7] This meshed with Bédard's earlier study, which limited group homes to 10 persons or less and allowed them in all residential areas.
Bedard was also successful in preventing the opening of new nightclubs, bars and pubs in his ward, and has tried unsuccessfully to get some of the area's bus shelters removed, saying that drug dealers and panhandlers use them.
[8] In February 2010, Bédard proposed a by-law to city council which would allow the city to fine people $300 for engaging "in loud, boisterous, threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent language" or becoming "a nuisance to the general public using the highway or to adjacent property owners".