I met Henry Padulo for the first time when I was doing election campaigns for former mayor Jean Doré, with the leader of the Bloc Québécois, Gilles Duceppe. He had a restaurant on rue Crémazie, the Da Enrico. He helped candidates in the Villeray area.
At about the same time, he came to help us during the 1988 Conservative campaign, since he was a resident of Ahuntsic, like me. When Nicole Roy-Arcelin ran against Raymond Garneau, he helped us. That was when I met Henri Padulo.
From 1990-1992 until the 2007-2008 election, I didn't meet him often. I met him because he came to Conservative Party activities around the 2008 election campaign.