- Ghislain Lebel
Ghislain Lebel (born
February 17 ,1946 inLévis, Quebec ) is a Quebec politician and notary.Background
Ghislain Lebel has been an activist in the Quebec independence movement since his teenage years, having been part of the
Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale , theMouvement souveraineté-association and theParti Québécois since its early days.Member of Parliament
Lebel ran as a
Bloc Québécois candidate in the district of Chambly in the 1993 election and won. He was re-elected in the 1997 and 2000 elections.On
August 20 ,2002 , he crossed the floor and sat as an Independent, because of his sharp criticism of theApproche commune , an agreement with the Innu people signed by the Government of Quebec, then led byBernard Landry and the Bloc's brother sovereigntist party, theParti Québécois .Lebel did not run for re-election in the 2004 election.
Parti Québécois leadership
He entered the Parti Québécois leadership campaign in 2005, in which he defended a more traditional form of nationalism and ideas relatively less to the left than the other social democratic candidates. He won 458 votes, 0.4% of all ballots cast.
Action démocratique du Québec
Lebel voted for the
Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) in protest in the 2007 Quebec election. He also considered running as a candidate of that party in the district of Chambly, but his offer was declined by party leaderMario Dumont . [ [http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/02/02/129629.html Dumont ne veut pas de Ghislain Lebel à l'ADQ, Antoine Robitaille, Le Devoir, February 2, 2007] ]Parti indépendantiste
On
April 22 ,2008 , Lebel joined the newly formedParti indépendantiste . A week later, he announced his intention to run in a provincial election as the party's candidate. [ [http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/05/03/188154.html Ghislain Lebel sera candidat du Parti indépendantiste, Antoine Robitaille, Le Devoir, May 3, 2008] ]Footnotes
External links
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060610212858/http://ghislainlebel.com/ Official 2005 PQ leadership campaign website] archived on June 10, 2006 (original [http://www.ghislainlebel.com/ here] )
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Member of Parliament for Chambly
years=1993–2004
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