sentences:  He trained as a civil engineer and practiced in Levis.A Liberal since the age of 19, Bourget was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal in 1940.Bourget and several other Quebec Liberal MPs had broken with their party the year before during the Conscription Crisis of 1944, quitting the Liberal caucus in order to oppose the government's decision to deploy National Resources Mobilization Act conscripts overseas.