Complex sentence: A lawyer by profession, Joyal served as vice-president of the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada and was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 general election and remained a Liberal MP for ten years.
Split into simpler sentences: A lawyer by profession, Joyal served as vice-president of the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party of Canada. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 general election and remained a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for ten years.