[2] In 2008, he blamed a bad privatization process for a decline in Quebec's commercial horse breeding sector.
In November 2008, he contradicted party leader Mario Dumont on a proposed increase to Quebec's minimum wage.
)[7] He received 5,073 votes (16.65%) in the election, finishing third against Liberal Party incumbent Pierre Paradis.
[8] He resigned from the position in November 2009 following reports that he offered to donate money to Gilles Taillon in the party's 2009 leadership contest when he was supposed to have remained neutral.
He has represented several high-profile clients, including a person accused in early 2000 of plotting to bomb Israeli diplomatic buildings in Canada.
(The Royal Canadian Mounted Police later acknowledged that they may have arrested the wrong person, and the defendant was acquitted in November 2000.
[12]) Pentefountas also represented the man who ultimately pleaded guilty to murdering actress Denise Morelle.
[13] Pentefountas first ran for the ADQ in a 2004 by-election in the west Montreal division of Nelligan, focusing his campaign on improving public transit.
[21] In 2004, he wrote a lengthy public letter calling for the Canadian government to decentralize its authority into five regions: the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, the west, and British Columbia.