For CBC Television he served as music director of the programs Les Coqueluches, Allo Boubou, Zoum, and Les Démons du midi, and composed music for the television dramas Edna, Le Vélo devant la porte, Pâques, Le Misanthrope, and Coup de sang among others.
[1] In 1962 Bernier founded Les Diplomates du Québec, an award-winning drum and bugle corps which remains active to this day.
His arrangements for Reno's self-titled album was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in 1968.
From 1970 to 1972 he was director of a summer concert series at the Place des Arts in Montreal.
In 1955 he was awarded the Prix d'Europe which enabled him to study under Renzo Silvestri from 1956-1958 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.