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Canadian politician
Gilles Rocheleau
(28 August 1935 ? 27 June 1998) was a member of the
House of Commons of Canada
from 1988 to 1993. He co-founded the
Bloc Quebecois
with
Lucien Bouchard
in 1990.
Rocheleau was born in
Hull, Quebec
, he was a businessman by career. His post-secondary education was at the
University of Ottawa
. He became a city councillor in 1967, then mayor from 1974 to 1981.
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He was elected as a member of the
National Assembly of Quebec
in 1981 in
Hull
as a member of the
Liberal Party of Quebec
. He was again elected to the Assembly in 1985 and became a cabinet minister in Premier
Robert Bourassa
's administration.
He left provincial politics to campaign in the
1988 federal election
in the
Hull?Aylmer
electoral district for the national
Liberal party
. He served in the
34th Canadian Parliament
until he left the party on 2 July 1990 following the implosion of the
Meech Lake Accord
. After several months as an independent, he became a charter member of the Bloc Quebecois party on 20 December 1990.
However, Rocheleau's embrace of
Quebec sovereigntism
did not play well in his strongly federalist riding, and he was roundly defeated by
Liberal
candidate
Marcel Masse
in the
1993 federal election
, losing almost half of his vote from 1988.
He was married twice: to Denise Gagne in 1956 and then later to Helene Roy.
Rocheleau died in Hull at the age of 62.
Electoral record (partial)
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References
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Normandin, Pierre G. (1989).
Canadian Parliamentary Guide
. InfoGlobe.
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