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Born in in the riding of Joliette, losing to the Progressive Conservative Party candidate, Gaby Larrivée ; second, in a 1990 by-election in the riding of Laurier—Sainte-Marie , losing to Gilles Duceppe ; and third, in the 1993 Elections in the riding of Bourassa , defeated by the '' Bloc Québécois '' candidate, Osvaldo Núñez . He was finally elected as a Member of Parliament in 1997 representing the riding of Bourassa, located in Montreal . He entered cabinet in August 1999 when he was appointed Secretary Of State For Amateur Sport . He was re-elected in the November 2000 Election . In January 2002, was appointed Immigration Minister . On December 12, 2003, Prime Minister Paul Martin advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to appoint Coderre to the Cabinet as President Of The Queen's Privy Council For Canada where he was responsible for a number of files, such as the creation of the new Public Service Human Resources Management Agency. He was also the Federal Interlocutor For Metis And Non-Status Indians , the Minister responsible for '' La Francophonie '' and the Minister responsible for the Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution. Coderre was not re-appointed to Cabinet following the 2004 General Election , in which he was re-elected in his riding. As Minister of Immigration , Coderre supervised the application of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which came into effect on June 28, 2002. As Secretary of State for Amateur Sport, Coderre successfully negotiated a number of national and international agreements and helped to establish the World Anti-Doping Agency in Montreal. During the 2006 Election , Coderre accused National Hockey League player Shane Doan of uttering ethnic slurs directed against French Canadian referees at a game in Montreal. Doan was given a gross misconduct penalty for verbal abuse of the officials at the end of the Dec. 13, 2005 game between his team, the Phoenix Coyotes, and the Montreal Canadien. Referees and linesmen for the game were all francophones from Quebec. Coderre wrote a letter to the Canadian Olympic Committee asking to keep Doan off its 2006 hockey team competing at the Olympics in Turin, Italy. Although one of the linesmen, Michel Cormier, has filed a report against the player, Doan has been cleared by NHL Executive Vice-President Colin Campbell, the league's disciplinarian who investig ated the allegation.We still have to see though under what criteras Doan has been cleared. In January 2006, Doan sued the former Minister for character defamation seeking $250,000 in damages with Doan promising to donate all damages awarded to charities to benefit Canadians. Later on, (april 2 2007) Coderre counter-sued Doan for defamation seeking $45,000 in damages after Linesman Michel Cormier reiterate under oath that Doan made a racist comment against him as a Francophone. (Cormier took the time earlier in the game to go to the Phoenix bench warning the Hockey team that he "won't tolerate any racist comment against him like Ladislav Nagy just made".) Coderre is a political science graduate from the '' Université De Montréal '' and complete a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from '' University Of Ottawa ''. His wife Chantal Renaud and he have two children, Geneviève and Alexandre. In May 2006, Coderre announced he would not seek the Leadership Of The Liberal Party . He said the timing was off for a leadership bid because the next leader of the party would likely be from Ontario . He endorsed Michael Ignatieff for leader. This prediction turned out to be wrong, when Stephane Dion, a Quebecker, won the leadership. He became National Co-Chair of the Michael Ignatieff Campaign for the Liberal leadership. EXTERNAL LINKS
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