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LaPierre is best known for having been co-host with Patrick Watson of the notorious public affairs show '' This Hour Has Seven Days '' in the 1960s. After the show's cancellation, LaPierre moved to politics as a " Star Candidate " for the New Democratic Party in the 1968 Federal Election . The party was hoping that he would help achieve an electoral breakthrough in Quebec , but he only managed to come in a distant second place in the Riding of Lachine with 19.5% of the vote. He returned to broadcasting and writing for the next several decades until his appointment to the Senate in June 2001. As a member of the Liberal Caucus , LaPierre was an outspoken supporter of Jean Chrétien against supporters of rival Paul Martin . LaPierre has a '', ''International Review'', ''Canadian Forum'' and '' Encyclopædia Britannica ''. He has been an activist with EGALE , a lobby group for gay and lesbian rights, since coming out as Gay in the late 1980s. He was Canada's first openly gay senator. In 2004, Senator LaPierre made news by responding in an e-mail to a , 21 April 2004 He retired upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 on November 21 2004 . In 1994, he was made an Officer of the Order Of Canada . EXTERNAL LINKS FOOTNOTES
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