[3] In August 1976, Bisaillon led a high-profile campaign in support of the Gens de l'Air du Québec, an organization of francophone air traffic controllers who were fighting a federal regulation restricting the use of French in their workplace.
[8] In 1978, he and fellow PQ representative Guy Chevrette worked as mediators to end a strike by editorial support workers at the newspaper Le Soleil.
[9] Bisaillon wrote a critical status review of the Parti Québécois in 1979; while this was intended as a private document for internal circulation, it was soon leaked to the media and caused a storm of controversy.
[5] In early 1980, Bisaillon and fellow PQ legislator Denise Leblanc launched a committee to raise money in support of the Parti acadien in New Brunswick.
[11] In 1981, Bisaillon took part in a civic committee that recommended parole for former Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) militant Paul Rose.
Later in the same year, he organized a gathering of various left-wing movements in Montreal and openly speculated about leaving the PQ, charging that it had drifted from its original goals.
[17] Bisaillon strongly criticized the PQ government in a debate over a motion of non-confidence in March 1985, charging that Lévesque's administration had demonstrated "a total lack of vision and rigor when dealing with the economy, constitutional negotiations, or the public service" and had "accomplished virtually nothing for more than four years.
"[18] Shortly after this time, he moved a separate non-confidence motion that charged the government with "inability to implement a policy of full employment."