Bernard has been Regional Sales Manager for Quebec and the Maritime provinces at Demers Ambulances since 2002. Prior to that he was ambulance technician for several ambulance services in Quebec, and responsible for fleet management and ambulance purchasing for CETAM (Montérégie ambulance technicians’ cooperative) in Longueuil, Quebec. In addition, during the eighties, Bernard devoted time outside his full-time job to work shifts as a prison guard and as a volunteer firefighter in Rawdon, Quebec.