Complex sentence: Lapointe was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Charlevoix and served as Canadian delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1976 and parliamentary secretary to the Transport minister from 1977 to 1979.
Split into simpler sentences: Lapointe was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Charlevoix. He served as Canadian delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1976, and parliamentary secretary to the Transport minister from 1977 to 1979.