auclair entered politics in 2002 when he was liberal candidate for vimont in a by-election but lost to the action démocratique du québec. however, in the 2003 elections, he was elected the mna and named the parliamentary secretary to the minister of employment, social solidarity and family from 2003 and 2005 and parliamentary secretary to the minister of municipal affairs from 2005 to today. he was re-elected for a second term in 2007.